I hate eMule.

[Az]

Originally posted by Unspeakable Horror
Azazel, you have a PM

I use bittorrent to download TV series usually and emule for everything else.
I stopped using DC++ because of all the "Share +30GB or go away" stupidity Is it still the same?

Nah, I get all that I need.

[tinyp3nis]

Originally posted by Solver

It is still the same. More the limit, better it is. The best public hub I have found has a limit of 90GB share and 2000 users, and has almost 300 TB of stuff. I don't understand why you think it's stupidity? You can work your way up you know, with kazaa or hubs that have only 5GB share limit.

That's indeed stupid. OK, the best local hub has 30 GB minimal share. About a thousand unders in at all times, total share around 40-55 TB. Great. Now, for me, the problem is sharing 30 GB. I have a hard drive large enough. But, I don't even have 30 gigabytes of content! Besides, most of what I have, are programs and such, stuff useless to share.

Any videos I burn to disks shortly after downloading - seeing how a disk costs half a dollar, no reason for videos to waste HDD space. Music, I don't have gigabytes of it, like some people do, and again, most is on CD. I'd love to share, but I don't have anything to!

Unfortunately, that is exactly the point. How do you get people with lots to share on a hub? Make the share limit high. There wouldn't be 300 TB of stuff there if not for the limit, and the beauty of dc++ there are lots of hubs with small sharelimit, but from experience I can tell that the bigger the limit the better the hub, IF you can get in.

[Solver]

Dunno, if there were no limits, people with 60 GB to share still would do that. I share about 10 GB, which is all that I can... and I'd share it regardless of limits.

[Zopperoni]

But not everybody has 90 GB of stuff, simply because they don't have the capacity.

Besides, there are still ways to get around it, so the total amount of available stuff is skewed by it.

[tinyp3nis]

Originally posted by Solver
Dunno, if there were no limits, people with 60 GB to share still would do that. I share about 10 GB, which is all that I can... and I'd share it regardless of limits.

The point is exactly that people who share a lot would not be in that one place. The hubs can't just have any amount of users they wan't, biggest I have seen is 5000 with very low sharelimit and it had less stuff than the hub with 2000 users with high share. If the hubs could maintain any amount of people I wouldn't mind less share per person, but they can't. You just have low quality hub with no content.

But not everybody has 90 GB of stuff, simply because they don't have the capacity.

Exactly, I sure didn't. I used kazaa and other hubs, I like these hubs with higher share better than hubs with low share.

Besides, there are still ways to get around it, so the total amount of available stuff is skewed by it.

If you allready have some sort of control for the hub like "unfair" sharelmits the ops have easier time finding out the fakers. Works wonders.

[Solver]

Nahh... I've seen share fakers get away with it. Or stay for many hours till kicked.

I find it unethical to do so, though. While I have a tool that can fake the amount of share, I don't use it. Just fired it up once to see how it works, for a few minutes. Peer-to-Peer only works because everyone who wants to download also shares something...

[Dis]

how does this work exactly? I downloaded this. I'm trying to download a movie, but I'm not sure that will actually happen.

It seems if I close down emule and shut down my computer it forgets about the download. Is there anyways to resume downloads in the middle?

One download was so slow it showed a completion of 88 days. I'm thinking I don't want to leave my computer on for 88 days.

the movie isn't some copyrighted holywood movie. It's a tv movie.

[Dis]

one problem is I'm downloading to a bare folder. I'm not actually sharing any files.

I'm wary to share my music files. I don't want to get sued.

edit: oh now I see I'm uploading parts I just downloaded. This parts things still confuses me.

I wouldn't use emule, but I can't find this obscure file on kazaa lite.

I really hate to leave my computer on that long. Waste of electricity and I worry about security. Last time I left my computer on for a long period of time, I came back, and some kind of virus wiped out my hard drive. I was unable to run windows after that point.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Asher
Tips:

The more you upload, the faster you move up into queues.
Adjust the max connections/20 seconds to something like 40 rather than 20
Set the maximum number of connections to something like 500
Set the maximum number of sources per file to 1000
Never set your upload limit or capacity below 10KB

Mine works really well:

I tried to do some of this stuff, but I got a message that my OS isn't able to support that many uploads. I guess my Win98SE is getting a bit dated

[Pekka]

p2p networks sucks serious butts. FTP is the only way. Shieeet my illegal softwares are still burning when I download them. SHiieet man, I have more official releases than the god damn mofo.ing estonian pirate market. Shiiiet man, if I had a penny for every downloaded cd, I'd be a trillionaire! DAaaaaaaamn, if my ISP would check out the amount of data transfers, they'd call the UN to send peace keepers between me and my computer... No matter though, you know I'd put them between the radiator and continue downloading.. and turn on the heat!!

Shieeet man, I even download the release from different groups, though it's the same game for example. Why? Because I can! Even your momma aint as fat as my HD.




... but seriously, p2p sucks.

[Dis]

woohoo. I'm 9.5% on a 700 mb tv movie. I'm also downloading a few other things. I'm 34% on one. I left my computer on all night.

of course apolyton isuper slow right now. I have tons of people uploading from me right now