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ok I did all the stuff, I fixed the firewall problem, I stopped the slow downloads disconecting, I put the port numbers in properly, and my downloads are ok its my uploads that are the problem. They start out fine then they continuously slow then disappear. It's to the point now that I dont care because its not MY downloads and ive tried everything to fix it. So if someone could tell me something I havent already heard that would be great otherwise Im just gonna say the hell with it. ps this does not mean I am ungreatful for all the help just that Im really frusterated.

I got the s12 and s13 apex speed mods and they are really good. Whats up with them ? I recently got kicked off tech geeks for using them. I didnt know they werent from you. I thought I saw someone posting something on here about the development of a client with the ability to have as many as 200 segments and I was sure he was part of the apex developement team. I find this client good and stable and doesnt eat up all my ram and doesnt hang up all the time. I could really care less about the 200 segments I know thats unfair but it doesnt mean its a bad client you dont HAVE TO set the segments at 200. Why are you guys against this thing ??

see closed post by SMT released mod -s8 of apexdc++ is this person not part of your development team ?? If the speed mod is not part of this project then why are there posts about developements on the mod ?? It made me think that you guys made this.

what the hell are you guys talkin about whats wrong with the regular pub hub list whats ADC configured hub lists is that a list of hubs that will accept apex doesnt all hubs accept apex ive never been kicked for it ??

my downloads and uploads start out fine then they progressivly slow down then disappear then they come back slow down and disappear. My ISP has assured me 3 times they are not throttling me. I've opened all my ports to 22579 on the advice from someone on Apex tech support hub, I'm in active mode, I've opened an extra port in my firewall for apex actually 2 one at 22579 and another at some other equally high number, turning off my firewall doesnt do anuthing, I've checked off the 2 settings in advanced to send garbage, I have peergaurdian 2 and nod 32 running in the backround. Nothing seems to work someone pls help me !!! I dont use router im on cable modem and for 3 years direct connect has worked fine i cant figure out what is wrong ?? any help would be much appriciated.

so Im sure everyone is aware of the problems Ive been having and we traced it back to windows firewall so I removed it and replaced it with sygate on the much app riciated advice of sidetrack. but...... Im still having the same problems with sygate wall that I was having with windows wall. Im sure it some setting Im missing but i cant get a hold of sidetrack he must be busy. My ups are still unreliable and slow and dis connecting I would really appriciate any help. This morning i figured out how to fully allow Apex so maybe that will work but I had to leave for work and i dont know for sure if that changed anything ?? Oh, and by the way Ive left my port numbers at 1112, 1113, and 1114, thats what we were using to test with should I leave them at that or should they be changed ??

what exactly is LUA i saw it in zion blue but ive no clue what it is and only that it doesnt work could someone pls explain ??

yes but what possible use would it have as a function within a client while the client is in use as it is in zion blue ??

no developer has the right to tell any user whats right or wrong its up to the user to decide. Who are we to take the moral high ground when we are all copyright infringers if you want to get technical about morality anyone who downloads anything on dc is a thief ! What client I use or what mod I use is my choice and if the hub doesnt like it its thier right to kick me it has nothing to do with who invented the technology or who improved on the technology. If we start punishing people who are creative and inventive there will be no improvments at all. I remember when everyone said strong dc was wrong. Without the kind of people who make mods apex wouldnt exist. thats my 2 cents.

So I'm at work again and I'm bored so I figured I would keep everyone updated on "The Problem" as I am now calling it. Just for further reference if anyone comes across this problem with anyone else its most likely thier firwall. Last night sidetrack and I worked at it and we narrowed it down to the firewall. Something I should have been able to figure out on my own, but anyway thats ok. We also set my ports to 1112, 1113 & 1114 disabled windows firewall and got my ups and downs stable then we turned it back on and it was all messed up again. So it was suggested that I use an older firewall and permanently disable windows which I did. But when I dled and setup the new firewall the problem began again. By this time I think sidetrack went to bed and I was exhausted and did the same. I got up this morning and all was well except my ups, there was 1 file that had been there all night and was only 15% uploaded. Perhaps I need a different # in ports for that particular firewall. I did however have a power failure this morning and when i restarted I had to allow dc this morning so that may have fixed the problem I cant remember for sure if I allowed it last night or not. Anyway long story short it's the firewall thats causing the problem and I hope to rectify the issue tonight. Some people may be wondering why I would care if my downloads are fine ? well its because I believe dc is about giving as much as it about getting. I will keep everyone posted about "The problem" so if it happens again with anyone else we will know what to tell them.

TGO is a cool idea I wish more clients would have thier own hubs. I'm glad there is someone to answer all my stupid questions if there wasnt I wouldnt make any progress at all. One of the main reasons I decided to switch to Apex was the fact that it had a support hub It was the one thing that swayed my decision in the favor of apex. Thx to all the support team who have helped me out recently. [Apex-vip]TYR

ok EXACTLY what numbers do YOU put in the ports pls give me the exact numbers for each space for ports. thx

ok well I'm back to using apex and I'm still having similar problems. My downloads are bearly ok I left it running last night with 10 or 12 downloads going and when I got up I only had 2 finished which is terrible comparred to what I used to get it would be easy for me to get 5 or 6 movies overnight no problem. I'm not nieve I understand the dc is unreliable some times due to many variables in connections, speeds, etc, etc. but going for 2 days with several segments on each download with about 10 downloads and only actually getting 2 finished in 2 days is really bad. My uploads are absolutly terrible I feel sorry for the people attempting to download from me they start out at 2 or 4 kb/s then slowdown until 0 b/s then disconnects altogether. Sometimes they slow from 120 kb/s to 0 b/s. I will try to get in touch with sidetrack on techgeeks tonight but I am losing hope that this problem will ever be fixed. Surely there must be someone somewhere who knows whats wrong ? I just left apex on the setting it was on when I down loaded it from sourceforge it was on firewall the third option down from direct connect and I dont remember the port numbers that were in there, and my settings in uploads are now and always have been on direct connect. Thats another thing I dont understand I've always just used direct connect setting in both and never had any problems so what has changed ? now everyone is going on about ports and sending garbage on outgoing and incoming lines ? in 3 years of dc use I've never had to deal with any of this. So I'm wondering what change could have occured recently to have caused all these complications ? If i could find the answer to what has changed perhaps I could go back and rectify whatever it is. I have started using a different computer about 3 months ago but this problem only began abot 2 weeks ago so I dont think it would be that ? PLS HELP ME !!! I'M GOIN INSANE !!! :whistling: :)

I really must reiterate that I've tried checking off both send garbage on incoming and outgoing connections. my original problem was with apex 0.4.0 wavering speeds that slowed and disconnected on both uploads and downloads WITH BOTH those settings checked. The fact that I'm using a different client and having ok downloads doesnt fix the original problem. Sorry for the confusion there.

truth be told I've had to resort to using a different client. I'm still commited to using apex if I can get it to work for me and i hope this doesnt disallow me from posting here because if i cant post here I wont be able find an answer to the problem and wont be able to go back to apex. Ive tried everything to fix this problem the client I'm using now only has one setting for sending garbage and its on the incoming so my downloads are fine now but my uploads are terrible. I've gone to my isp and exchanged my modem for a new one, Ive done several adware, antivirus, malware scans with sevral different programs just in case, I've checked my RAM and my processor, my speed test is 400 kb/s, My isp has given me several assurances they are not throttling. I tried going back to apex 0.2.0 then on to zion blue, then to apex 0.4.0 then to zion++ 2.16 green and was finally able to get my downloads working ok but my uploads start out ok then steadily decrease then disappear. Now this means it is not just the client thats the problem it coild however be the ports. If someone could give me a difinitive number to put in the ports that would be great, but as it is right now i get a different number off of everyone i talk to. I got the 5 digit numbers from someone on both techgeeks and some other hub which will remain nameless they said the number should be higher than 20000. Anyway im going to go back to apex 0.2.0 and try again perhaps I've missed something. hashing my share for all these clients is getting a little annoying.

or go back to 0.2.0 before the problems began hint,hint.

I'm usually on the same hubs all the time the top 4 or 5 biggest 1 or 2 medium sized and 1 or 2 small specialty hubs for documentaries and such. Anywhere from 8 to 12 hubs but mostly cycle through the same 12. I have mostly the same problems on all of them. I'm in eastern canada and most of the hubs I'm on are Europian and American. I'm now having new problems. When I write anything in main chat on most hubs there is a lag sometimes as long as 60 sec. My download speeds are mostly ok but I have to stay on top of them always searching for alternatives and forcing attempts etc, etc. If I go to bed or leave the computer I end up getting next to nothing downloaded. It seems that the client is'nt auto searching for TTH alternatives, so I've changed the time to every 5 minutes but somehow I doupt that will help. As I've said my download speeds are ok but my uploads are impossibly low and totally unreliable there is no piont in uploading from me because no one can get anything its down as low as B/S and disconnects users all the time I've been told that users can't even get my filelists half the time. In advanced settings I have send garbage marked for incoming and my downloads are fine i dont have it marked for outgoing and my uploads are terrible so this leads me to believe its throttling but my isp has asured me they are not throttling but perhaps the throttling is happening on the other end this is what my isp suspects. It's all very frusterating and I wish someone had an answer.

i've been having the same problem and i've asked a lot of people in the know about this stuff and as near as anyone can figure its the other end of the connection it's the only logical explaination I've eliminated everything else. anyway bud good luck u r gonna need it !!