Xp Services and P2P

[masarada]

I run XP home and emule as the P2P software.
I was getting nice download speeds all these times [e.g 70-80 kB/s] for a max. bandwith of 96...so that was quiet ok.
Recently I went ahead and tweaked some of my XP services. In my knowledge these were services that are not needed in 95% of cases and In order to have a more 'efficient ' XP I 'disabled' some of these services .

[ e.g Alerter, Background Intelligent Transfer Service,ClipBook,Computer Browser., Error Reporting Service, Help and Support , Net Logon, NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing, Network DDE, Network DDE DSDM, Performance Logs and Alerts, Portable Media Serial Number, QoS RSVP, Remote Desktop Help Session Manager, Remote Registry Service, Routing and Remote Access, Secondary Logon, Server, SSDP Discovery Service, System Restore Service, TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Service, Upload Manager, WebClient]

IMHO...none of these services are needed by emule.
But I found that after doing this, I could only download 30 kB/s to 38 kB/s .....thus prooving me wrong.
The only possible solution for me here was to revert back the services to their default modes [ 'manual' or 'automatic']. which i did.,.... rebooted and re-tried...but no joy.

So the question : - what services are 'essential' for a P2P to forge ahead with it's working ?

any ideas, thoughts ?

Thanks for any help.

[redwudz]

I think you did a bad thing. I'm not sure which service would cause the problem either. I think you may be stuck with either a system restore or a reinstall.

I've messed with a lot of the P2P settings and sometimes really screwed up my download speeds. If you are on a cable or DSL LAN system, reset the LAN connection (Repair). This sometimes works. Also reset your modem and your router if you have them. Do this by disconnecting the power to the modem. Reboot the computer, then do it again with the router.

It doesn't take much to mess it up and it's hard to repair sometimes. The LAN setup can change just slightly and still work, but be slow. Check to see in your P2P program if you have low ID, that may be the cause of the slowdown.

[masarada]

Thanks redwudz for your feedback.

I do have a High ID and P2P says that to me even in these slow times.

Ummmm... you mentioned a couple of factors, can I touch on these a little ?

"system restore "
shall I turn 'on' system restore on XP @ present ?
or did you mean I go back in time to the day when all was fine ? [since this is on 'off' now for about 3 weeks, I do assume I can go to a time when it used to be on..?]

on " reinstall"..
would you mean XP or the P2P ?

on "If you are on a cable or DSL LAN system, reset the LAN connection (Repair). "

I'm on cable and this 'repair'..,.would this on the "local area connection properties" tab ?


I'd be most appreciative of any ideas and Thanks for any help.

[IAIHMB]

1) "system restore "
shall I turn 'on' system restore on XP @ present ?
or did you mean I go back in time to the day when all was fine ? [since this is on 'off' now for about 3 weeks, I do assume I can go to a time when it used to be on..?]
2) on " reinstall"..
would you mean XP or the P2P ?
3)on "If you are on a cable or DSL LAN system, reset the LAN connection (Repair). "I'm on cable and this 'repair'..,.would this on the "local area connection properties" tab ?

1) It sounds like you have system restore off, in this case that is a bad thing. When you turn off system restore your restore points are deleted, so that isn't going to help.
2) This could go either way, I am not an eMule user so I am not sure. Some peer to peer programs change their settings to fit your system, if eMule does this completely removing eMule from your system and installing it again could fix your problem.
3) Go to your network connections and right click on your connection icon and select repair. There might be multiple icons but repairing the wrong one won't hurt you.

[masarada]

Thanks a lot Guys...
shall give this one a whirl...and hope others can learn from my bitter experience of....

"if it's not broken, don't fix it "

Thx.

[redwudz]

If you have 'High ID, then the P2P is working as good as it can. The 'repair' function might help, won't hurt anything.

I have cable and a router and with P2P like Emule, it seems like there are a hundred things to adjust and you sometimes don't know if one makes it worse and the next makes it better. I learned the same lesson, 'Don't fix it if it ain't broke'.