{"id":394,"date":"2007-01-16T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T08:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/2007\/01\/16\/speeding-up-emule\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:00:16","slug":"speeding-up-emule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/speeding-up-emule\/","title":{"rendered":"Speeding up eMule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" title=\"emule2.jpg\" id=\"image395\" alt=\"emule2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/01\/emule2.jpg\" \/>As one of the veterans of the P2P file-sharing world, <a href=\"http:\/\/emule.en.softonic.com\/ie\/22897\">eMule<\/a> is still used by millions to exchange files over the Net. Although its return on searches is pretty impressive, we\u2019ve always been a little disappointed by the speed at which the client transfers files, which is a tad sluggish compared with the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/ares.en.softonic.com\/ie\/39834\">Ares<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/limewire.en.softonic.com\/ie\/12933\">Limewire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve just come across a way you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-scream.co.uk\/forums\/t8650.html\">inject a bit more pace<\/a> into the old nag by changing the \u2018Upload Limit\u2019 option within the \u2018Preferences\u2019 menu. When you are downloading data, the client must send an &#8216;ack&#8217; (acknowlegement) to the server. If your upload stream is running at your connection limit these &#8216;acks&#8217; wont get back\/will be slowed down so you won&#8217;t be sent the next little bit. Setting the upload cap to about 70% to 90% of your total upload total capacity should improve download speed and ensure that the client doesn\u2019t get clogged by sending unnecessary \u2018ack\u2019 data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one of the veterans of the P2P file-sharing world, eMule is still used by millions to exchange files over the Net. Although its return on searches is pretty impressive, we\u2019ve always been a little disappointed by the speed at which the client transfers files, which is a tad sluggish compared with the likes of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/speeding-up-emule\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speeding up eMule&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[3051],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionemule"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337974,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/337974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}