Little eMule Tutorial
Table Of Contents
1. Downloading and Installing eMule
2. Introduction to eMule, eD2K and Kademlia Networks
2.1. The eD2K Network
2.2. The Kademlia Network
2.3. eD2K Vs. Kademlia
3. Customizing eMule
3.1. Connection Wizard
3.2. The Main eMule Screen And Getting ServerList
3.3. Your Preferences
3.3.1. General Preferences
3.3.2. Display Preferences
3.3.3. Connection Preferences
3.3.4. Proxy Preferences
3.3.5. Server Preferences
3.3.6. Directories Preferences
3.3.7. Files Preferences
3.3.8. Notifications Preferences
3.3.9. Statistics Preferences
3.3.10. IRC Preferences
3.3.11. Security Preferences
4. Important things to know
4.1. Client ID
4.2. eD2K Links
4.3. Queue Ranking
4.4. Progress Bars
4.5. Things to check out
5. eD2K Link Sites
6. Final Notes
 You can download eMule by Clicking here.
The Installation of eMule is actually pretty straight forward. The
first thing you will be asked for is your installation language, most
of you I would imagine will be selecting English. After you have done
this click OK and you will see the Pic to the right of this text.
Quickly read it and click OK. Now you will be shown the eMule License
Agreement, I recommend you read through it and accept it. Next will
have to choose which components you have to install, by default, they
are all selected and you shouldn’t change this. Click Next and you will
be asked to specify a destination folder, the default folder is fine
but if you want to change it to anything else it won’t affect eMule’s
performance at all. Now click Install and it should very quickly copy
files to the destination directory. You can now click Close. eMule
should now appear in your Programs list on the Start Menu. Before we
actually get into running and customizing eMule, It is very important
that you get an idea of how the Networks function and some background
information on eMule. It won’t take long to read over the next section
so I advise you don’t skip it. Knowledge of how a network works, can
help later on when you are trying to achieve higher download speeds or
releasing files on the Network.
The Original Client that used the Donkey (or eD2K) Network was
eDonkey2000. However, many found that eDonkey2000 was generally buggy
and that the interface could be improved upon. So the eMule Project
came to be, led by a developer called Merkur. Right
now, eMule is probably the fastest growing P2P client there is and it
owe’s this to it’s open source policy and the many developers that have
contributed to it. eMule is developed without any adware or spyware and
is completely free. It is developed as a hobby and aims to make no
profit. However, donations to its cause are welcome. For more
information on eMule and its team of developers visit http://emule-project.net.
As I stated earlier, the eD2K Network began with eDonkey2000. Now
there are many clients that use this Network. The Network is run by
many different servers, not just one like a lot of other P2P networks.
To connect to a server you must first get a server list for your
client, we will see this later. When you connect to a server, the
server tests to see if other clients can connect to you. If they can
connect to you, you will receive a High ID, if they cannot, you will
receive a LowID. We will read more about ID later. Once you have
connected, your list of shared files will be sent to the server, the
server will then add this list of files to the database. The servers do
a lot of work including performing searches and gathering sources.
Without these servers the Network would be useless and even one of
these big servers falling could be fatal to the Network. Files are
transferred in chunks, or Parts. Anybody who has downloaded a full part
of a file is known as a source. A part of a file is 9.28MB. This Part
system means that big files can be spread easily around the Network. We
will read later how you can use this to your advantage to achieve
higher download speeds.
Whereas the eD2K Network requires you to connect to servers,
Kademlia is a serverless network. Well, it’s serverless to the degree
that you wont have to download a massive server list and keep it up to
date to use it. Kademlia, sort of, makes a server out of every user.
When you connect to the Kademlia Network, you are given an ID if you
have a HighID. To connect to the network you require the IP of an eMule
client already connected to it. A test like the HighID test in the eD2K
Network is then performed, if other clients can connect to you, you
will be given an Open status. If they cannot connect to you, you will be given a Firewalled status. If you have a Firewalled status, you will be required to
connect to a server because Kademlia doesn’t support Firewalled clients
yet, as it is still in it’s testing phase. As a client on the Kademlia
Network, you are assigned a responsibility. Each client has a unique
Hash ID and your responsibility might be to handle searches for a
specific keyword. Then when another client searches the Network, the
clients responsible for the keywords are found and the search results
can be brought back. This is a pretty clever idea and it makes use of
every client connected to the network.
So which network is better than the other?? That is the question
you probably would ask first. The answer is.. neither is better. In
fact, the only difference between the Networks is how you connect and
how source finding and searches are performed. The files on each
network are not completely different at all. One however might have
more users than the other making the amount of files higher. However,
there are some differences between them that have to be noted. Firstly,
eD2K depends on Servers to work. If the biggest server collapses the
Network potentially could be crippled until more servers come to
facilitate. Kademlia however, doesn’t depend on major servers but to
work properly would depend on a high client count. eMule now is the
only client that supports Kademlia also, whereas many many clients
support eD2K which means eD2K will probably for a very long time have
far more users than Kademlia. Basically, each has it’s good and bad
points, neither Network is perfect and lets not forget, Kademlia is
still just in it’s early stages. I, for one, am looking forward to it’s
future.
 On your first run of eMule, you will get a Welcome to eMule Window. Here you will have to make some choices and fill in some details. Click Next and you will be asked to specify a nickname, [ link ]
will be the default nick. It doesn’t matter if you don’t choose a nick,
you can leave it at it’s default or use your own, it’s entirely up to
you. Click next and you will be asked if you want to enable the
automatic handling of Download Priorities. I
personally think you should leave it switched on. Basically it will
manage the priority of your downloads so that a download with 2000
sources wont affect one with 100 sources. The download with 2000 would
be given normal priority and that with 100 could be given high
priority. This will make sure that you get your files as fast as you
can. Click Next and you will be asked about Upload Priorities.
Basically this means if you are sharing a 2000 source file and a 100
source file, the 100 source file will get more upload priority because
it’s a rare file. In my opinion, this option keeps the Network alive
and I strongly recommend that you leave it switched on. Click Next, Now
you will be asked about Full chunk transfer. If this
is switched off, then your upload queue will empty quicker but it means
you might not upload full chunks of files to a client. If you are a
releaser of files you will definitely want this option switched on. I
personally leave it on because spreading full chunks of files helps the
Network to function better. Click Next again, now you will be asked a
few different questions. First of all, this guide is for the eD2K Network, so select that as your Network. You can also select Kad if you wish to test it out. Safe Connect is next, basically if you tick this option beneath it, then connecting
to servers might be a lot quicker but the chance of a LowID is higher.
A LowID is not a good thing as you will read later so I recommend you
leave this option off. You can also choose whether or not you want
eMule to auto connect at startup, this is completely
up to you aswell, if it matters, I don’t have this option selected
because I like to choose different servers. Click Next now and click
Finish.
 After you have completed the Welcome To eMule Wizard you will see the Connection Wizard pop up.It will look exactly
like the pic to the right of this text. Later on we will be looking
more into the Connection Settings but it’s best to sue the wizard to
determine many of the settings. First of All, You have to select the Operating System you
are using. Win XP and Win2K are known to handle multiple connections
better than 98 or ME. For this reason, they are Higher recommended when
running eMule. Selecting the wrong Operating System will cause eMule to
run sluggish so make sure you have the right option selected. Concurrent Downloads DOES NOT mean maximum downloads. Remember that when selecting this. This option is there to determine the maximum amount of Sources you can have for a file. If you plan on only downloading 1-5 downloads
at once then the maximum number of sources will be much higher than
6-15. Depending on your connection this source limit will be determined
by eMule. As you can see I have selected 6-15 because I believe that
eMule works its best when you have more than a few downloads. A single
download might be slow but if you have others going at the same time
too it doesn’t really matter to you because another might download
faster. However, if you have a pretty slow connection I wouldn’t
recommend that you download a lot at once, as the constant source
asking and connecting might just kill your connection altogether. Now
Last but definitely not least, you have to select your Connection Type.
Please remember this is VERY important as it helps to determine your
maximum download and upload speed as well as also being a factor in the
max sources per file. Scroll through the list and if you see your
connection in the list (as I have found mine, 1024/256) then select it
and click Apply. If its not in the list, select Custom and put in the
value’s yourself. If you do not know what to put in here, you should
know. But it is easy to find out, just refer to any documentation you
got with your connection or any advertisements for it,. You might see
it say something like “Download Speeds Up to 512kb/s and Upload speeds
of up to 128kb/s”. If this is the case it’s in the list, if the value’s
you find are not in the list, then use the Custom Option. Finding out
your Connection values is a vital factor and will determine how eMule
performs for both uploading and downloading.
 My
Apologies for the horrible quality of the picture that accompanies this
text, I had to resize it to fit the layout, I may add a full size
screenshot to the forum but I’m sure you’ll understand what I’m saying
anyway. So looking at the main eMule screen now, let me explain to you
what you are looking at. There are 6 parts to it, The button bar at the top, the server list in the middle, Serverinfo and Logs tabs under the serverlist, server handling on the left and My Info.
eMule has expanded since it first was released and now there is much
more to cover in this tutorial than there was before. The very first
thing we are going to do with eMule is get it a serverlist. If you look
at the program to the left you will see a box that says Update Server.met From URL. This is what we are going to do here. Paste [ link ]
into the box and click Update. There should now be many more Servers
listed. To find the servers with the most users, look at the server
list then look at the tiny buttons over it that say things like Server Name, IP, Description etc. Scroll across to where it says users and click it, It should now organize them by their user count. On my Pic, razorback2 is 565K users, that’s a lot of users for just one server. When you
connect to a server you also may receive new servers to your list. This
is very handy because if you connect to a lot of servers it sort of
eliminates the need to keep updating serverlists, but I would still
recommend you keep it a common practice. Now before you connect to a
server, we have a long road of preferences to go through so let’s
begin, click Preferences.
This section will help you to customize your eMule client by changing certain preferences to suit you.
 The
first thing you will see is your General Preferences. Here you can
change your Nick or Language from what you set in the Welcome Wizard.
Under Miscellaneous you have a few more options. Beep On Errors will do
exactly as it says, Bring To Front On Link Click means that if you
click an eD2K link from a website, eMule will add it to the Download
List and eMule will display itself in front of any other programs you
have running. If you are not familiar with eD2K links, don’t worry
about it, I’ll be going over them later in the guide. Enable Online
Signature is another option that comes with eMule, there are programs
out to edit and create online sig’s but I won’t be going over them in
this guide. Prompt On Exit can be useful, basically it means that if
you go to close eMule it will ask you if you are sure. For those of us
who keep a lot of programs open and swap between the, all the time,
this is useful because if we accidentally hit Close instead of Minimize
we will not lose our sources or current download speed. If eMule
closes, your Queue’s are gone and you will have to gather the sources
all over again when you re-run it. Now under Startup are more options
that you can configure. First of all Check for new version should
always be checked, but the amount of days between checks is up to you,
I like the Splashscreen but maybe for people with slower PC’s you might
want to disable this. Start Minimized would be useful maybe if you were
remotely starting eMule (i believe some irc programs like klipper can
remotely start emule if you send an email to it). Now we’ll skip over
Edit Webservices but we cannot ignore the eD2K Links button. If you
have another client installed that uses the eD2K network, it may have
set itself up to accept eD2K Links, which means, if you click a link to
a file on the donkey network, that client will open and add it to its
download list, not eMule. If the button is grayed out then it’s ok,
eMule will accept eD2K links for you, but if it’s not, click it and set
it to accept eD2K Links. Now click the Display button on the left.
 This is not vitally important but cool if you like to change the way eMule looks. Progressbar Style in
my opinion is fine the way it is. The Progress Bars, are the bars in
the transfers window for Downloads and Uploads. You will learn later
about what the different colour’s mean on these bars. Leave Tooltip delay time the way it already is. Download list doubleclick to expand should
be left the way it is. Basically when you are downloading something, if
you doubleclicki it, you will see a list of sources you are downloading
from. Indicate downloads with comments/ratings by icon also
should be left on. When you are downloading something, if someone has
made a comment, a little icon will appear beside the download, you can
right click and choose to view comments. You will also notice the
icon’s change for good and bad comments. Show percentage of download completion in progressbar is
another option many people might go for because its like a standard on
other P2P networks. I however couldn’t be bothered with it. Show transfer rates on title will just put the upload and download speed on the title bar of eMule, its up to you if you want that option. Show download info on category tabs is again up to you. Category tabs can be useful if you download a lot.
If you go to the transfers window and look at the download, you will
see a little tab that says All. If you right click this you can add in your own categories likes Video, Archives etc. Minimize To System Tray is
again useful for those of us who run a lot of programs at once. it will
put eMule into the system tray when minimized as a tiny icon that you
can double click to maximize.Auto clear complete downloads might be handy for someone who downloads a lot but as many have said
before there is something nice about seeing a download complete because
the progress bar goes completely green, you can then right click and
run the file. Now there is a little box that is below, I will let you
decide if you want to disable known clients list (known clients are basically people you have uploaded to or downloaded
from, this wont stop you or them from getting credit, it will just
remove the list from eMule to save RAM), Disable Queue List (This wont stop upload queue’s it will just disable the list to save resources), Don’t update Queue list in real time (this one should be ticked because if you are sharing a lot of files
the queue will get big, if it updates in real time it will take more
resources constantly to keep updating like that) and Don’t recreate statistic graphs on resize (you can see the graphs under statistics window, just look and you will
understand them). You can also now edit the font display for servers,
messages and irc windows. Auto completion (history function) should remain enabled. You also have a handy reset button there if you
make a mistake and something looks wrong. Now please click Connection.
 The
wizard you filled in earlier will already have determined a lot of the
settings here but still we can mess with a few. If you can remember, I
set my connection to 1024/256. Therefore, downloading would be possible
at about 128kb/s down and 32kb/s up. Now you can change your Download Capacities anytime you want but if the wizard set it based on your entries, you should leave it. As for Download Limits you can just untick the little checkbox to make it unlimited. However, with Upload Limits you should never go higher than about 75% of your upload capacity. If
you do and you try to use the internet you will notice a change.
However, if you get cheeky and try to set your Upload Limit low, eMule will punish you. Now it wont exactly do anything bad but you
will get very low credit and hence you will get very low download
speeds. So remember, sharing helps you download faster so you should
share as much as you possibly can. Your Clientport is
the port used by eMule. Some ISP’s have become aware of port 4662 and
blocked it. You will know this if you keep getting LowID’s or if a
server warns you that it has been blocked. You can change your
Clientport to any port that you like though. Next you see your Hard Limit and
this is the maximum sources per file. This figure has been gotten from
the wizard earlier if you can remember. Now you can change your Hard
limit to anything higher if you think your connection can handle it. I
think mine is really set at about 1500 because a lot of the files I
download might not have more than 500 sources anyway. Connection Limit is important. You cant set it too low because if you do, eMule might
struggle, if you set it too high, eMule might cause your internet
connection to become fully used up. So leave it at the value that the
wizard set it to. Some more options here include Autoconnect on startup (basically it will connect to a server as soon as eMule starts), Reconnect on Loss (this will find an alternative server if you lose connection to one you are currently on) and Show overhead bandwidth (this is not really important, overhead is kind of like the bandwidth
you use requesting files from sources and getting search results). You
can also select what Network you are using or both. If you want to run
the wizard again, as you will see there is another link there for it.
Please click the Proxy button.
 eMule supports the use of many different types of Proxy Servers on the eD2K Network. It supports Socks 4, Socks 4a, Socks 5 and HTTP 1.1.
For any reader who doesn’t know much about proxy server’s I’ll explain.
A proxy server kind of acts like a middle man between your computer and
another. For example, if you were uploading to a user and you were
using a Socks 5 proxy, the data would go from you, to the proxy and
then to the remote user. So why would you want this? Basically many
people would like to have themselves anonymous on P2P networks. Proxy
servers can provide anonymity because the IP Address the remote user
will be receiving a file from wont be yours, it will be the proxy’s IP.
So it would probably limit bandwidth a bit but it can provide excellent
security on the Network. While eMule supports proxy’s, with a HTTP 1.1
proxy there is no way that you can receive a High ID. HTTP 1.1 proxy’s
are there so you can surf websites anonymously, not share files.
Therefore, it would only work through specific ports and bandwidth
would probably be very very limited. Still, if you want to try a http
1.1 proxy, go ahead, you can find many anonymous proxies at http://www.proxy4free.com.
I don’t use Proxy server’s on eMule however so I cant provide any test
results or anything since I haven’t ran any. I would like to hear on
the forums from users who try it with a Socks5 or Socks4 proxy is that
is possible. Now we will move onto Server, so click Server.
 Here
are a nice list of things you can change related to servers. First of
all Remove Dead Servers is a good option because it will keep your
serverlist clean. Auto-update serverlist at startup is also pretty
handy, you can click list and add in where to retrieve a serverlist
from. Update serverlist when connecting to a server is a must have,
when you connect to a server it sends a list, then the list is checked
against yours and any you don’t have it adds to it. Update serverlist
when a client connects is pretty much the same thing, just with other
clients. Use priority system is good too, because you can change the
priority of servers and if you are auto connecting at startup, or if
you lose connection to a server, servers with high priorities will be
selected first. You can change the priority of a server by right
clicking it in the server list. Use smart LowID check on connect should
be left checked, when you get a LowID its nice to know you need to do
something about it at least. Many users probably don’t ever realize.
We’ve already seen Safe Connect in the wizard earlier. Autoconnect to
servers in static list only is basically there because some people
prefer to connect to a static server. Static server is like a static IP
it never changes. Set manually added servers to high priority will set
servers you completely add yourself (that includes the IP address and
port number, not when you add a serverlist) to higher priority that the
rest of the list. So basically you see that you have a few options
there related to servers. Once again its entirely up to you if you want
to change any of these options, none of them will really destroy the
performance of eMule so don’t worry. Now lets move on to Directories,
click Directories.
 Ok
the life of eMule is the sharers and EVERYBODY who uses eMule should
share. There is no excuse. Some people try to use the excuse that they
are afraid to share on P2P networks because of organizations or
corporations that might be monitoring them. Unfortunately, if you feel
this way, you shouldn’t be using P2P at all. It’s not fair to attempt
to eat off others and give nothing back. Now that I have that said,
let’s look at the preferences. First of all, the default Incoming Files and Temporary Files folders
will be listed. These folders are perfectly fine but if you wish to
change them to any other folders there is no problem with that. Now to
select shared directories, click the little + sign
beside the drive and then beside the folders etc. Now if you select a
folder, it will share all the files in that folder but if there are any
folders inside it (or its subdirectories as they are known) they will
NOT be selected. If you want those folders selected too, then when you
are clicking the folder, hold down CTRL and it will select all the
subdirectories inside it, and of course all the folders in those
folders for however long the trail goes on. Now the last part is UNC paths.
This is for remote paths for drives that are no on your machine but
might be across a network. Just remember to add in the computer name,
for example \\computer02\c\downloads. So that’s how easy it is to setup
a shared directory in eMule, let’s move on to Files now.
 Here are some options for file handling you might want to change. First of all, See my shared files/directories will
allow anybody (or just those on your friends list) see your shared
directories. They would do this by right clicking on you when you ar
eon their friends list, or in their download queue as a source, then
clicking view files. Most people prefer to keep this set to Nobody, but
it’s up to you. Intelligent Corruption Handling should
be left selected because file transfers have many different ways of
becoming corrupt. If a part is corrupt, eMule would either re-download
the part or recover the corruption. Now look at the Initializations box. Add files to download in paused mode might
be handy for someone who plans on downloading a lot of files. You might
have to pause some instead of choking your connection. Add new shared files with auto priority will
be selected depending on what you put in the wizard earlier. It
basically means that when new shared files come along, it will give
them priority based on their popularity on the network. Add new downloads with auto priority is pretty much the same as what happens with shared files only it’ll be
with files added to your download list. To make sure you get rare files
and popular files properly you should leave this ticked. Cleanup Filenames is a nice little option. Basically some sites that offer links of files
on the network will use the eD2K link to add the name of the site onto
the filename. Here you can add words separated by quotes, then if they
appear on filenames they will be filtered off. Now back to the other
options, Try to transfer full chunks to all uploads will again be selected depending on what you set in the wizard earlier.
I recommend it because uploading full chunks will make the networks
users downloading files that pause for a long time with just a little
bit to go more rare. Try to download first and last chunks first has
some good things about it, like to preview a video file, you would need
the first chunk. Whether you select it or not is up to you. Watch clipboard for eD2K links is an option that does exactly what it says, but I never really
bothered with it, but of course, you can try it out if you want. Start next paused file if a file completes is
probably needed by those people who download a lot of files and often
have a few paused. When a file completes it will resume the next in
line. Now look at the Video Player box. There have
been external programs written that help to preview video files but I
wont be covering those programs in this guide. You can add a video
player in if you want however. Also Create backup to previewshould
be selected. When you go to preview it will take a while to open the
file but its the best way to do it. Anyway, now we are on to Notifications.
 Notifications
in eMule were added kind of just to make some users happy I would
think. All they essentially do is alert you on an event really. Pop up messages can come up in eMule and you might have no idea, so maybe making a sound play when it does is a good option, its up to you. The Pop out when box
has a few extra features some users might find handy. Basically I’m not
even going to go through them because if you look at them and read
them, it really could not be more straight forward than it already is.
Click Statistics now please.
 eMule
has a statistics windows that some people might like to look at to see
how much they have downloaded or uploaded altogether, these are some
preferences for its display. Take a look at the statistics windows
before you look at the preferences. This is also pretty straight
forward. You can adjust the time delays for graphs to update, select
background colour’s etc but I’m not going to explain this either
because it’s far too straight forward. Move on to IRC.
 eMule
has a built in IRC client. Ok so it’s not the most advanced IRC client
in existence by any means but its all eMule needs really and it also
allows eD2K links that you can click to download files. We used to have
a channel #ad_buddies on liquidirc for eMule help but we moved the
channel to irc.addictz.net and its for support now on anything
Afterdawn covers. Anyway, here you can select a nickname, it can be
anything, it doesn’t have to be what you picked to be your eMule
Nickname. The Channel List filter will only display channels with a
name that you choose or a certain amount of users. If you entered 100
as the value, only channels with 100+ users would be displayed when you
connect to IRC. The Perform string is basically a line of text you can
pout in that will be sent to the server on connection, it could be
/join #emule to make sure you join the eMule support channel when you
connect. Now there are a lot of options in Miscellaneous box so I’ll
run quickly through them. Play sound events is not really needed, i
have never had it selected when I used to use eMule IRC. Connect to
help channel will automatically connect you to #emule when you connect.
This is a nice little trick by the eMule team which has made them
usually with 1000+ users on the channel. Load server channel list on
connect will display all the channels on the server when you get
connected, if you have decided to filter anything you probably wont get
the full list. Add timestamp to messages is something that should
always be selected in my opinion. It will simply add the time the
message was said in front of the message. You have the option to Ignore
Info Messages too. Ignore Misc info messages should be left alone as it
really isn’t annoying or does any harm, Ignore Join info messages will
make sure that when someone joins a channel that it wont announce it on
your screen, this can be annoying on a channel with a lot of users.
Ignore Part info messages will make sure that when a user parts from a
channel it wont be announced and Ignore Quit info messages will stop
the announcement of a user quitting the network. You can also Ignore
eMule Protocol Messages. This is basically the same as Ignoring Info
messages above it so I’ll let you decide between the two options.
Accept eD2K links in IRC means that you will be able to click eD2K
links in IRC so that the file it references will begin downloading in
eMule and From Friends Only will only accept eD2K links from users who
are in your friends list. Now on to Security settings.
 These are your security preferences. First of all your IP Filter can
be very useful. While i wont be covering most of it I’ll give you some
information on it in case you would like to use this option. Basically
if you build an ip filter list with a lot of IP ranges in it, if those
ranges show up in either your upload or download queue, they will be
blocked out. These can include anything from law enforcement to
hackers. If you wish to get an ip filter list, go to google and search
IPFilter.dat im sure you’ll find a result. In the Messages box you can choose to Filter messages containing certain words or phrases. You can also Accept from friends only which will mean if any msg’s you and they are not on your friends list, you wont even receive it. Accept from valid clients only will make sure you don’t get messages from fake clients that might be trying to spam you or something and the Advanced Spamfilter should always be switched on. In the Comments box you can choose to filter any comments that contain words of your choice. In the Miscellaneous box you should leave Leave Secure Identification ticked and leave Run eMule as unprivileged User unticked.
This is the last preferences we will go over since the scheduler is
straight forward, web interface will not be covered in this guide and
extended settings are also straight forward enough for you to work it
out. Now I will cover some things you should know.
I can understand this guide can be boring but it’s nearly finished
and some of the things coming are a lot more interesting so no worries.
Here are some things that are nice to know of in eMule.
Remember I told you that you get an ID everytime you connect to a
server? Well it can be low unfortunately and that is bad for you. So
what is a LOWID? Its when your client port is unreachable basically.
Its usually a firewall or a router that is causing the trouble and
often even your isp. A LowID is an ID lower than 16777216. So how can
you try to defeat it? First try changing client port to 80 instead of
4662 (make sure to restart emule afterwards). To give full access to
port 4662 and eMule on your firewall. Or to configure your router for
port forwarding for your client port. Unfortunately sometimes a Client
ID is very hard to fix. For those who use routers and have LowID
problems read http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/66716
eD2K Links are links that can be added to webpages that when
clicked will start a file downloading in eMule. The page that has the
eD2K link does not offer the file at all just references to a file
already on the eD2K Network so it’s legal and should stay that way. At
the end of the tutorial are some links to Websites that post eD2K
links. To get an eD2K link of a file that you are sharing, go to shared
files in eMule and right click on one, you can then click, Copy link to Clipboard. This helps if you are trying to release a file on the Network.
 What
you see to the right is queue ranking.You can see this if you go to a
download in your list and double click it. Basically when you queue on
a source you need a position in their queue. As you can see, I am
pretty close to the first few before they transfer to me and the one on
top is currently transferring data to me. You can improve your QR by
uploading (remember the credit system?). It’s also the same for other
people too, they get a position open your queue. If you look under
transfers and click the Uploads button, it changes to On Queue and then
Known Clients.
 Please
excuse the measurements of the pic appearing on top of the progress
bars, nothing I could do about it. Anyway, the colour’s are, Red – A part you don’t have + is not found on any source, Blue – Available part, the darker the blue, the more available it is, Black – A part you have downloaded and Yellow – A part you are currently downloading. A bar gone fully Green means complete. The numbers can be explained easy. The first number is
the amount of sources you are queued on, the second is the total number
found and the number in brackets, the number of sources transferring to
you right now. So as you can see its not complicated or anything.
There is more to eMule than I have added to this guide and over
time you will notice the little extra things about it. What you should
do is right click on downloads and uploads and see the options you have
with them, also with shared files. There are also new things under the
Tools button. There is a lot for you to check out yourself, this guide
has just shown you how to use it. I didn’t ass in searching for files
because honestly, it couldn’t be any easier, If you choose to search
local, then you will search just one server or you can select global
server which will bring back results from all servers. You have to be
connected to search. There are also other programs that work for eMule
like Donkey Doctor that you might like to check out, they can help sort
out a lot of problems you can encounter with downloads.
Well, it’s not a complete guide but it’s a little tutorial. Come
chat with me and other Afterdawn users on IRC – irc.addictz.net
#ad_buddies (if you have problems make sure u are connecting to port
6667 /server irc.addictz.net:6667)
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