Many people think eMule is slow or useless because it's not always easy to make it work. But I'll show you that it's easier than it may sound. Lets get started.
.: Instalation
Download eMule for free from this page: http://www.emule-project.net (BE CAREFUL, it's known that some people try to scam others adding a need to send an extremely expensive SMS in order to get an activation key, if your eMule installation asks you to do that delete it and get another)
You will now find a standard installation process. When it finishes you'll find a eMule icon on your desktop, if not you can just create one. Start eMule .
A wizard will help you through the process of making your eMule work. The first screen (shown below) will ask you to choose a username, be original and creative. Choosing whatever name you choose is not relevant and it can be repeated, it's only use is making other members recognise you.
You will find two more checkboxes below your username, you can fill them with whatever you want. If you want eMule to start up with the computer you'll have to activate the first one (this is mainly useful for a screenless pc that is remotely controlled). The second one is quite interesting as it will make eMule automatically connect to the different networks it uses. Both options are quite useful but in no way required so if you aren't sure about what to choose leave them blank.
Click on next. The next screen requires a bit more experience, so if you don't have any special configuration settings on your network, you should just leave them as is.
Click on Next. The next page displays settings that you can enable if you want. They are just a personal preference. In a summed up way both make the Downloads and Uploads that are less common on the web faster while it makes the commons a bit slower if there are some uncommon.
This means that if you're downloading two things, let's say Madonnas last song and Some 40 years old movie, eMule will try to get the 40 years old movie harder than the easy to get song.
Click on Next. Now eMule will tell us we're finished. Now when we click on finish a new wizard will pop up and ask us the speed we have on our network, if you know the speed of your DSL just select an aproximate value on the assistant, if you don't know you have to select the lower value that comes if you take ten times your explorer download speed. If you don't know what I've been saying select just one around 1000.
NEVER select too high speed, if you do this your downloads will slow down. And never set to unknown it will also slow down your network as your DSL is asimetrical (so uploading too fast will reduce download speed).
LUCKY YOU, your eMule is ready to go!
.: Using eMule.
Now you can start using eMule. For all those that are a bit lost look at the bar on the top that looks like that:
Choose Kad and hit the connect button on the right side, lots of numbers will appear. Ignore them.
Now select the serves tab and choose the one you want. You can also just hit on connect like on the Kad and it will chose one for you. Another day we'll see how to get a more complete server list. But for now choose connect and let it work. The first times it will take eMule more time than it will take later, be patient.
Now your eMule is set up and ready to download. (The process of connecting may sound difficult the first time but it will take you just seconds when you get used to it)
Now we can start our first download. To do this, click on the button on the upper part where it sas search.
You will see three fields to fill in:
- Name: Type in the name of whatever you want to find.
- Type: Choose the file type you want eMule to look for. You will be able to choose things like Audio, Photo or Video.
- Method: Here you can set where eMule searches what you ask him to. You have got the following options:
- Automathic: eMule will search whereever he can to get what you want. This is the best as its fast and convinient
- Server: this will limit the search to the server you're connected, it is fast but brings less results.
- Global (servers);This will search on all the servers you know. It brings many results but also a inmense ammount of SPAM. As a rule I would say that any file with a higher aviability than 1000 are SPAM.
- Kad: this is a quite good method to search. It normally brings up good results and a low ammount of SPAM. But it is extremely slow.
- Web: this will be useful if you look for a file that is not online now or if the normal search doesn't work..
TIP: The results are shown in columns. If you set it to arrange it by availability it will be far easier tooo find fast downloads. The higher a result now is the higher is the speed it downloads.
Double click the result you want to download, the letter will change the color and it will be made available in the tab "Traffic".
TIP: Avoid downloading files with strange names or that just by a coincidence match the following name: "Text searched + xxxx" you will soon know this endings as they're always the same.
Enjoy your eMule and don't get disappointed if a download is SPAM or corrupt, it's quite normal at the begining but it will get less with some time (but even I am scamed from time to time). You should use your eMule together with a good antivirus, I'd dare to recommend Antivir (Free)
Next: "Enjoy your eMule even more" (Soon)
