eMule² : your eMule even faster!

.: eMule

We've by now seen how we make our eMule work in a basic way. But now we'll have a look at tips and tricks that will make our eMule faster and more reliable, it will also be safer and more comfortable. Let's have a look at some of them:

.: Sorting our downloads in the adecuate folders.

Everyone that has been using eMule for mor than two weeks knows the problem. Your download folder is a horrible mess. Your music is sharing a folder with the  Videos, the games and so on. Thois makes your Shared folder a inmense piece of junk.

If you try to solve the problem you will make it even worse, your iTunes will be messed with double entries for the same song, you will have all your files taking a lot of space apart if you copy them or you won't any longer share with the community. Stop, it's quite easy to solve this little problem by using the feature called categories.

First go to the Traffic tab, here you will see another tab where it says "All"

Right click on the tab. In the menu that pops-up choose "Add category" a window like this will show up:

Fill in the name you want for the category (for example: Music).Now comes the trick of the whole thing. In the field that says Incoming folder you just have to choose the correct folder (for the example I will choose  "My  Music") and now set the file types  (this time we'll write ".mp3|.wma|.m4a")


We'll get something like this at the end:

What's the point of doing that? It's easy, now every time you download a piece of music it will automatically be placed on your My Music folder when it's finished. Here you are the extensions for movies and games if you want them:

Video:         .avi|.mpg|.mkv|.mov
Software/Games: .rar|.zip|.exe|.7z|.iso

Think that .zip and .rar archives are able to contain any type of data. That means that if you download a archive containing the 12 songs of a disc it will land in your games folder.

Now eMule will be a bit more organized with your files and you won't have to sort them.

.: Anti fraud and anti piracy protection.

Yes, eMule's network is filled with people that upload SPAM or try to track your IP's to prevent ypu from using it. They normally don't track your IP and visit you at home, but they usually ruin you the download you are on. In order to prevent both of this you should install a IPfilter into your system.

First of all open the preferences and choose security. You'll see something like that:

Your eMule is preset to not activate the IPFilter, choose "Filter servers", once activated type into the textbox:

http://emulepawcio.sourceforge.net/ipfilter.zip

Now click on load. It'll load for some time but at the end you'll be protected against a lot of threats on the Network.

TIP: Sometimes there is a conflict beetwen the IPFilter and the server list so eMule will seem to be hung up. If this happens move the window behind the logo until you're able to see the OK button. Click on it and eMule will work normally.

.: Ports.

This problem is as common as sand on the beach.And it will cause our eMule to speed down nearly to a half of the speed it could normally reach.

To see if this is wrong you'll have different ways.

1. If you minimize eMule to the tray with that cool fourth button we'll see the Donkey is blind (if the donkey is grey you're not connected to anything and if it looks normal yo won't need this), well it's wearing something that looks like Paris Hilton's sunglasses.
2.  If the two arrows on the bottomright corner of the main window are both orange..

To give you an idea, the ports are the way eMule communicates with the outside, if they don't work well it will be harder for it to connect and you will get a fake ID or LowID. To get this changed you'll need to configure the router.

.: Telefonica router.

[ This is a guide for a router given by Telefonica, I don't know how common it is outside Spain. But all the routers work mostly the same so you should be able to do it on your own]

If you've got one of the new routers given out by Telefonica the Comtrend Zyxel, wich is white and has green LED's this is the ideal guide for you, we'll start setting up your PC and then the router itself.

.: The computer

Your router will redirect the ports to a certain IP, so you'll have to make your PC get a static IP or this won't work after restarting your PC or network connection .

Click on the connection icon on the taskbar that represents the connection that leads to your router, if you just have one it's the right one (normally). You'll see a window like this:

If you use Windows Vista you'll have some difficulties to reach this window. Open up the network center and then you'll see a button saying something like "Netwrok connection administration" this will bring up the window  "Network connections", from here you can continue like on Windows XP. It'll take you a minute to find it but it's not impossible finding it.

When you got the window click on the tab called  "Support"  and write down the Gateway, it'll probably be something like this (if not the same) : 192.168.1.1 , this data is really important, so don't forget it.

Now switch back to general. Click on "Properties" this will make the following window pop up.

On the list that appears on the center of the window click on TCP/IP Protocol (if there is more than one, select the V4) and hit properties.  Now a window will show up where you can see five boxes (you won't be able to write in any of them). Now click on: "Use the following IP address". In this moment the five boxes get active and you'll be able to write into them:

•  IP Address: Think of a number you like and that is between 2 and 255. When you're ready write into this box 192.168.1.X, X is the number you've chosen. (if your gateway address, the one we copied before, is different than 192.168.1.Y you'll have to replace the first three numbers of your IP address to those).
• Subnet Mask: Windows fills this in automatically.
• Default Gateway: Here we'll enter the number we copied, 99% of routers are set to 192.168.1.1.
• DNS: If you've never heard something about a specific DNS fill in the same as in the Gateway Box..

As I like the number 27 my window will look like this:

Hit OK, and your computer will start loading. It's possible it will teka a minute or two, so be patient, it's also possible that the windows show glitches during this process or get white, etc.

TIP: Now try your Internet connection. If you've done it right it should work normally, in case it doesn't you'll have to check the previous steps. If you aren't able of finding the error set the IP and DNS back to automatic..

Now our computer is ready, let's start with the router.

.: The router

Your router is configured from the explorer window. Open your Web Browser, type 192.168.1.1 (in case this was your gateway), You will be asked to login.

My router is the one that is shipped with Telefonica Spain and is white bos with green lights (Comtrend Zyxel), if yours the same model you will be able to follow this tutorial step by step. If it isn't the same it doesn't matter but the menus won't be exactly the same. In this case the login data will be:

User: 1234
Pass: 1234

The login window is the one Firefox displays, the one used by explorer is slightly different but does the same. Once we've logged in we'll see a window like this:

On the left you'll see a sidebar, hit Advanced Setup, when you hit it mre options will appear under "Advanced Setup" (Ignore what's happening to the right)  now look for the Nat option, now click it, ignore what happens to the right of the list and click on Virtual servers.

Once you clicked "Virtual Servers" on the right there will appear a chart with only one row and the buttons "add" and "remove", click on "add". Something like this will appear:

Now comes the tricky part. Well have to fill in the chart with the data it needs. First select "custom server" and fill in the nearby box with "eMule" (it doesn't really matter what you fill in, it's just for you to recognize it later). Now fill in the "Server-IP Address" write the Ip addres you gave your computer previously. Now we start filling the chart:

• External Port Start: Open eMule and check the preferences to find the ports it uses. If eMule says your port 3267 I would recommend to write 3260. (eMule uses a TCP and a UDP port, you'll have to fill them into separate rows)
• External port end: Now add ten to the previous value (3270)
• Protocol: now select if the port you filled in is the TCP or the UDP port.
• If the intern ports don't change automatically write the same as the external port ( 3250 and 3260)

Now repeat this for the other Port. Once you finished filling in all the data hit "Save/Apply". You will be taken back to the uneditable chart where the eMule ports appear by now (eMule ports are random, so don't use the ones on the image below as a reference for yours). It will look something like this:

Restart eMule, if the donkey on the taskbar doesn't wear any more sunglasses and the arrows around the world on the eMule window get green after connecting you've done it right. If just one gets green you can connect to other servers or hit the "Check firewall" on the Kad tab. If this doesn't work recheck the ports.

.: Add servers automatically.

Everyone knows that eMule servers come and go, eMule has a tool that sets it to autoupdate the list of servers everytime it connects to a server or client. To enable it we go to the eMule preferences and select: "Server" and check the different "Update when..." options. Ir'll look something like this:

Now you're ready to go. Have fun downloading.