Re: [Mldonkey-users] Are we already banned from emule?

[Traumflug]

Am 15.07.2004 um 04:14 schrieb Rainer Krauss:

> When mldonkey finds a source all still goes well, so there is no limit 
> of download speed - but most emule sources seem to ignore me and never 
> send anything.
>
> Does emule ban mldonkey allready because of the trouble lately? Or are 
> there some new "timings" for bans in newer emule versions, i need to 
> change some settings for?

It's a principal problem of eMule, MLdonkey etc. they ban for all sorts 
of "mis"behaviour. They ban for a slow connection, the ban for 
leechers, they ban unresponsive clients, they ban clients sending 
damaged packets, they ban, ban, ban ...

As a result, I have more then 50% overhead traffic and can't even 
exhaust my tiny 64kbit connection. Neither in upload nor in download 
direction.


Instead of banning downloads, they should try to _enhance_ downloads:

There's no need to ban slow connections. A slow connection is better 
than no connection at all.

There's no need to ban leechers. A client not sending data back doesn't 
get much data sent. That easy. See how BitTorrent works.

There's no need to ban unresponsive clients, they use no bandwidth.

There's no need to ban clients sending bad packets since in most cases, 
the user doesn't even know about the bad packet. Other packets from 
this client might be great. Implement some logic to recover the 
situation on both clients, instead.



Have fun,
Traumflug