emule brings network to a crawl

[celzius]

I recently made a small network between my friends and i to share a broadband connection. When a certain user starts using emule on his computer all other computers find it hard or impossible to browse the internet even if he has provided limits on his emule connection. Now if two people use emule at the same time, the first user (the one that hogs all the bandwidth) is taken as a first priority and takes all the speed (usually 16 kb/s) he can find while the second user gets a maximum of 5 kb/s. What is wrong with this setup? Is there someway to fix this?

Here is my network config:

router/modem: D-Link DSL-500T

Switch: D-Link DES-1008D

Connection speed: 256/64 kbps

Edited September 14, 2004 by celzius

[CoffeeFiend]

If you just installed SP2, perhaps tcpip.sys is causing you issues, otherwise it could be the router causing the problems... Hard to say without more details.

[XtremeMaC]

did u set up port forwarding to the users? if u've just forwarded it to the one getting 16kb he's probably on high id, the other might be on low id.

[celzius]

@crahak

I just formatted both computers and installed windows xp pro with sp2... so they're both identical regarding software. They also both have the same NIC. Why would the router receive more data for one computer more than the other? What other details do you need?

@XtremeMaC

Both connections have port forwarding setup on they're respective ports. And both users have high id.

[SteelWarrioR]

For what I get from your post, I think I had that same problem some time ago... A small workgroup network with few workstations and connected by a router... This issue could be related with internal network/ ISP congestion due to that certain user being using p2p software and news leechers (for example). Try to install a network bandwith controler by certains processes: Du super controler or netlimiter... Search on google for those.

Hope It helps.

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SteelWarrioR

[Mr. Spock]

When you are behind a router, and 2 computers are on emule, it's still going over 1 I.P so there is the problem. that makes it that 1 emule cleint is been seen as a leech.

What U can try is to use different ports but probley that will still give the same error.

Best solution is to make sure that each computer is on a other emule server