[PLUG] aMule, oh my!

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:09:02 -0700
Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> dijo:

>On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 8:57 PM, John Jason Jordan
><johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:
>
>> I want to view an old out-of-copyright movie. The only place I can
>> find it is here:
>>
>> http://scifi.dead-donkey.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1492
>>
>> After much googling and reading of what passes for instructions, I
>> managed to get aMule installed (the easy part), and learned a few
>> things about how to use it.
>>
>> I have managed to get aMule to find the file, but I have "low ID" and
>> the download rate is zero. Reading the aMule wiki leads me to suspect
>> that the problem is my router. However, I have no problem with
>> downloading anything else through the same router. That is, Firefox,
>> Ktorrent, ftp, and everything else downloads at sometimes over 3 MB/s
>> (I have good bandwidth).
>>
>> I know the IP address of the router is 192.168.0.1. Otherwise I know
>> little. After hours of struggling to figure it out, I could use a
>> quick primer on how to get aMule to work with it.
>>
>
>
>I am not too much of an expert here, but here are goes.
>Getting aMule to work well with your router means opening up the
>correct ports in the Firewall so not only can you download, but others
>can connect and upload from you. aMule can do this automagically if
>aMule and the router are configured correctly.
>In aMule  go to Preferences -> Connection and check Enable UPnP. Then
>go to the router and enable UPnP..  (this is router dependent and some
>routers don't support it). The router might already be so enabled so
>you can try skipping the router configuration.  Now test by restarting
>aMule and see if the low-id message disappears.
>
>If you want to do this manually go to the same place in aMule and
>right down which two ports it is using and go back to the router and
>open those ports.

I have decided to give up. My router is working perfectly for
everything except aMule, so I don't want to mess with it. Besides I
can't find the instruction sheet that came with it and I can't remember
how to log in to it. I did set aMule to UPnP, but it made no difference.

I also suspect that Daniel is correct. Although aMule reports that I
have Low ID, it does connect to the server. Yet I get zero bytes down.
Therefore chances are that the file no longer exists on the eDonkey
server. Or wherever such files are kept. 

It is unfortunate only for the movie Gold (Karl Hartl, 1934), a Nazi
science fiction film. Apparently the only place it exist(s)(ed) is the
eDonkey link. Amazon has never heard of it and I can't find a copy for
sale or download anyplace else. But I am sure my life will continue if
I never get to see the movie.