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Why is surfing slow when eMule
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What is a Mod?
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Are Mods better or faster?
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I get messages that eMule is
banned
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Where can I get further help?
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Is eMule anonymous?
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My Firewall reports attacks or why does
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My firewall still reports connections after I
closed down eMule
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What is the IP Filter?
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Is eMule legal?
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May I copy the Help / FAQ for my
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Why is surfing slow when
eMule runs?
Depending on the settings eMule may open quite a lot of 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 eMule's inner working much without
rendering it incompatible with the rest of the network. This fact
makes any speed improvements very unlikely.
The mods offer new features and possibly new bugs which you may or
may not like, yet some of them have unfeatures which are extremely
harmful for the whole network. These leecher versions should 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?
If there are still open issues after reading the FAQ and help you
may want to ask in:
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the Forum (please use the search function before starting new
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IRC - just go to the IRC main window in eMule and press
connect. To enter the english eMule help channel type
/join #emule. There are also other language chat
rooms like #emule-french, #emule-spanish or #emule-dutch.
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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
identifiable 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 process 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 0.46c 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 pages for
filter files are Methlabs, Bluetack and Lussnig's IP Filter. Add the link to the filter file,
e.g. http://bluetack.co.uk/config/antip2p.txt to the
Preferences -> Security -> Update from URL field and
press Load. Block lists can also be added directly if they
point to a *.zip file.
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Is eMule legal?
eMule is a tool to transfer files - like FTP/HTTP - and is
therefore legal. However as for every tool, that doesn't means that
every possible usage is legal. In nearly all countries it is
forbidden in to download copyrighted material without the consent
of the owner. So if you plan to download the latest cinema
blockbusters for example, that would be most likely not a legal
usage of eMule and we strongly advise against doing so. Sometimes
it might be hard to determine if a given file is legal to download
or not - if you want to be sure to not violate any copyrights we
suggest to use websites like our ContentDB where all linked
files are verified to have a license which allows downloading them
on eMule.
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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.
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