anygirl wrote:Sorry, I was offline until now. I'll leave it online and running for the rest of the day, at least and I'll try to leave it going at night too. OK, I went to the server tab and under my info, I am listed as having High ID. I also went back and under details, I clicked "Add yourself as a source" for all the files. Does that help? I would think that would be the default setting. I'm going to upload and share as a torrent on piratebay too and I'll post the link to that as soon as I'm done because I know that will be faster.
Is there something I can do in emule to give greater access or change a setting to give faster or direct access or something? If I add people here as "friends" does that help? I don't know how to do that either.
I'm downloading from you now, starfish21 has parts of the file, FLL is downloading from me - everything's going just fine, you've done everything right - good job!
eMule tries to maximize how fast and widely files are spread by keeping "score" of how much you upload compared to download from any specific person. And as people get parts of the file, they start sharing it too and the file gets spread around faster.
To add someone as a Friend, just right-click on them in the Upload window. Most of the regulars here put "[FLM]" in their nick so we can recognize each other. Someone who's uploaded files
to you has a higher score than someone who hasn't. As they download
from you, their score gets lower. You can also give someone on your Friends list a "friend slot". A friend slot pushes that "score" real high.
Since eMule can only upload to a certain number of people at a time, everyone has to get in line (queue) until it's their turn. A higher score moves you closer to the head of the queue so you start downloading sooner. Someone in the friend slot not only starts sooner but isn't switched away from - usually eMule sends 9MB to you, then switches to the next person in the queue and you get back in line again.
I'd probably turn off "Add yourself as a source" since you don't plan to be online 24/7. This doesn't speed anything up, it just means the servers point people at you before they point them at someone else. I'd also go the the Shared tab, right-click on the filenames and set them to "Release". This directs different parts of the file to different people so they all get different parts... and they can start uploading those parts to each other. If someone already has a chunk that eMule wants to send, it'll pick another one until the file is complete. The result is the file gets distributed faster.
If something I said doesn't make sense, let me know so I can try to explain it better.