edonkey id numbers, oh my

[pod]

Hehe, so finally I found out that what id number you get from a server seems to matter A LOT.

I've always been getting the same id number, 19xxxxxxxx, a nice, big number. But I got up this morning and checked up on my donkey, and, well...

- all my downloads died out. I had lots of sources, and was pulling down 40-80kb/s usually, but now there was only 1 transfer, going at the usual borderline 0.6 kb/s. Ugh...
- the upload queue died. There were no people queued, when usually there are 50-60. Unlike my download however, the uploads were going full steam ahead, capped at 46kb/s by me.

I checked my id number, and it was 649. To my knowledge this is the first time my id was not the usual 19xxxxxxxx, and I have no idea why it was assigned to me.

So there. If your donkey downloads suck, increase Max Connections, and make sure you're not on a server that's giving you a low id.

[Stoepsel]

Hi pod,

the most important factor that influences your donkey ID is, if you are behind a firewall or if you chose to connect through a proxy.

For information about the low ID and firewall issues, see these links:

http://www.edonkey2000.com/faq.html#number
http://www.preinheimer.com/edonkey/faq/client.html#gsid
http://www.preinheimer.com/edonkey/f...nt.html#trojan

In most cases, you don't need to specify a proxy in eDonkey to connect to the eDonkey network. To check, if a proxy server was specified (either by you or by the default settings determined by eDonkey itself), go to the Options screen and press the Proxy Settings button. If you know you don't need a proxy, set the Proxy Type to None. If you are not sure, try it anyway. If it works, you're OK. If not, set it back to what is was before.

Hope this helps,
Stoepsel