Emule Beta Download
Etha Beliard
If you've noticed your eMule downloads have significantly slowed down over the past year, then this new beta version, with ISP obfuscation, may be the answer. It's still the best P2P file sharing network out there by miles too.
eMule is a filesharing client based on the eDonkey2000 network which offers more features than the standard client.
It also allows to connect to the Kad network using the Kademlia protocol. This allows, in particular, operate emule servers. With eMule user can share any type of file (MP3, JPEG, AVI, ZIP, EXE, etc..), and it also offers the possibility to download files that other users make available to the community.
The application has a nice and friendly interface, a fast connection to the server, the automatic removal of "dead" servers in the list, the rank value when placed in a queue and a page of detailed information on the evolution of downloads statistics.
One of the great advantages of this software is that it compresses the data when the transfer is between two eMule client. The gain may be useful in certain formats no or little compressed files.
The software also includes a verification system files to prevent data corruption .
Like all p2p protocols ed2k requires that you're connected to a peer that requests upload from you. The presence of incomplete peers isn't enough to assume there is a problem, it's likely they are already receiving as much as their bandwidth can handle. I've used the emule plugin for years, never tried the extreme version but I have witnessed difficulty uploading similar to a torrent with lots of seeders and few peers. Usually if you keep the tasks running they will upload and if any of the files are also shared in torrents you can upload to those bitcomet peers in the torrent swarms too. This is one feature that makes bitcomet unique, it can share using cross-protocol technology that as far as I'm aware no one else had developed.
My best guess is you probably just need to wait for a "hungry" peer and it will upload, but I will admit I have limited knowledge of ed2k protocol. I've studied how it interacts with bitcomet's cross protocol downloading, but as far as using it to download files on it's 0wn I've only done when I can't find something in a torrent. If you're certain there is actually a problem you might try emules forums, or install their stand alone client and see if it uploads on the same tasks.
In order to upload/seed in emule you need to share the directory in which a FINISHED file is present , set the upload status to high and within minutes (if it is popular enough it will begin to seed) you will find downloaders in your eMule client.
If you're downloading a torrent bitcomet will only download some of the files from ed2k if it can find the identical files with matching hash values, so if your torrent shows download from emule, it will continue to upload to emule. If the torrent completes without any download from emule then it won't upload to emule.
When I was first beta testing the emule plugin we noticed that it was not only uploading, but if limits weren't set it was uploading considerably more thant it should have been. I believe they have found a way to balance the uploading so neither protocol dominates your bandwidth and as far as I know it works as I've described. Have you witnessed torrents download from emule and not upload even after an extended period of time?
I started the torrent and removed all bittorrent trackers so it wouldn't complete before finding emule peers. After it got past 10% I also disabled LTseed so it would rely solely on emule. I see two connections, both with about 50% but the reason I'm not uploading to them is they are probably the same computer and the connections are each of the two files in the torrent.
If you like you can try redownloading the torrent, start it, remove all the bittorrent trackers, disable DHT and disable LTseed so it will only download from emule and we can see if my upload speeds up. It will probably be best to shut down all other torrents so our test isn't competing for bandwidth.
The only thing I can suggest on your end is to check that your ports are open, the emule gui has a port checker and it uses a different port than bitcomet, it it's blocked you might have trouble uploading.
Also as I mentioned before, I'm far from an expert on emule. In fact when I switched computers I didn't even install it until a member asked for help, but every time I use it, it works as expected. If a torrent has emule peers I download and upload to them. Most torrents I use don't have emule peers though and with this torrent with only two very slow peers they weren't any help, but if the torrent had no seeders and stopped at 99% those emule peers would allow me to complete the download and in turn seed to the rest of the bittorrent peers. That is the beauty of the cross protocol downloading, not only does it help your speed, but it can revive a dead torrent in situations like this.
ps. You can also try the regular plugin, I've heard opinions from some serious emule users that the extreme mod isn't really an upgrade. Bitcomet offers it because it's a popular mod, but some believe it's just a cool name and nothing more.
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