| > | Why is surfing slow when eMule runs? | ||||
| > | What is a Mod? | ||||
| > | Are Mods better or faster? | ||||
| > | I get messages that eMule is banned | ||||
| > | Where can I get further help? | ||||
| > | Is eMule anonymous? | ||||
| > | My Firewall reports attacks or why does eMule send mails? | ||||
| > | My firewall still reports connections after I closed down eMule | ||||
| > | What is the IP Filter? | ||||
| > | May I copy the Help / FAQ for my own site? | ||||
| Why is surfing slow
when eMule runs? Depending on the settings eMule may open quite many connections and also uses much bandwidth. This can slow down other internet applications, i.e. surfing the WWW. Especially wrong / too high connections settings cause serious performance drops while surfing. |
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| What is a Mod? As anyone can use eMule's source code other people have developed modified versions of the original one. These versions are not supported by the official eMule team. |
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| Are Mods better or faster? Mostly no. The official eMule versions profit from mod development but the modders cannot change the eMule's inner working much without rendering it incompatible to the rest of the network. This fact makes any speed improvements very unlikely. The mods offer new feature and new bugs which you may like or not, yet some of them have unfeatures which are extremely harmful for the whole network. These leecher versions must not be used and the official eMule tries to cut them down by security features and by banning them. Mod versions offered on our forums play fair and stick to the network's rules. |
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| I get messages that eMule
is banned The official eMule versions do not create these messages, they are from mods. If you are using the official version you can safely ignore or filter them. |
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Where can I get
further help?
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| Is eMule anonymous? P2P networks all rely on a direct connection of two users to transfer data. To accomplish this the IP of the target client has to be known. This IP makes the user identify and trackable. There are only two ways of guaranteeing anonymity: routing the traffic over anonymizing proxy servers or bouncing it across other clients. Proxy servers have numerous disadvantages. They can be closed down, the degree of anonymity depends on the trustworthiness of the admin and the traffic they consume costs a lot of money. Let's assume an average 100.000 client eMule server. Each of the connected client causes 10kB/s traffic in each direction. The server would have to cope with a transfer volume of 2.000MB (1,9GB) per second. No one can afford such servers. Routing all traffic over third clients causes a similar problem as half of the traffic would be used for anonymizing. This means that each user would have to upload twice as much as now to keep the network's performance on the current level. At the moment a secure and sensible way of anonymity in a P2P network is not feasible! |
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| My Firewall reports attacks
or why does eMule send mails? Software firewalls analyse traffic by looking over which ports the traffic is send. Many ports are commonly used only by certain applications. Emails for example usually uses port 110 to receive mails and port 25 to send mails. Also trojans and other pest software uses specific ports. Now all ports are freely configurable in eMule and some users are setting them to ports which are normally used by other applications. This can mean that firewalls report attacks or think that eMule sends mails only because eMule has a connection on a certain port. If you use the official eMule version you can rest assured that it will not send any unwanted information. Also for the current version .30b no exploits are known. |
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| My firewall still reports
connections after I closed down eMule Your eMule gets known in the network as it is a source for other clients. Also the server propagate your client as source for the files you share. When you shut down eMule you will still receive traffic from other clients asking if a connection is still possible. This effect will subside after a while. |
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What is the IP Filter? The IP filter is used to block traffic of certain network addresses which may be harmful for the network. The most popular page for filter files is PeerGuardian or Lussnig's IP Filter. Add the link to the filter file, e.g. http://www.peerguardian.net/pgipdb/guarding.p2p to the Update from URL field and press Load. |
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| May I copy the Help / FAQ
for my own site? You may copy any parts of the Help and FAQ as long as you keep the author and place a link to http://emule-project.net. It is nice and shows respect to drop me a note when doing so. |
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Updated on: 2004-02-27 by Monk