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MrP
24th January 2003, 10:57 PM
quick question for you

i have an NTL cable connection (600k)

that cable connection comes into a server (w2k server) via a 10mbit nic, the server then has another NIC which is connected to my network at 100mbit.

one machine (mine, running XP) is running emule (another edonkey client) and to get that running i had to set certain ports on the server so that they were avalible to my machine so edonkey could connect correctly (4661 (tcp), 4662 (tcp) and 4665 (udp) if i remember correctly)

since doing this, using internet explorer has become a pain, i get all sorts of pages that come back with bas requeses, error 400's as well as pages that take ages to load, only seem to part load etc.

does anyone know why setting certain ports open might do this, and what i can do to sort it out correctly.


thanks for any help
Nanobot
24th January 2003, 11:02 PM
Don't know anything about emule/edonkey but I have seen this sort of behaviour when there is an excess of traffic on the INet connection. Does emule/edonkey transfer large quantities of data on a regular basis. Also you have the NTHell factor to consider :D
MrP
24th January 2003, 11:05 PM
true.

i think its something to do with the way i have set the net connection up, but i cant figure out why

ho hum, back to the drawing board!

toodle pip
Ragnarog
25th January 2003, 01:22 AM
I had an edonkey server running for a few days once and noticed that after a while i'd be flooded with pings from 100's of other servers which totally killed my connection...maybe thats whats happening to you too..

Rag
speculative
30th January 2003, 09:06 AM
Originally posted by Ragnarog
I had an edonkey server running for a few days once and noticed that after a while i'd be flooded with pings from 100's of other servers which totally killed my connection...maybe thats whats happening to you too..

Rag

I have run Emule before, and it seems that these two proggies work by trying to dl the file simultaneously from many servers, sometimes hundreds of servers at once. So, that could be causing problems. I think you can adjust the number of connections it will try to open at once in the menu.

-speculative