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## 7 Other configuration options

- Go to the "Preferences" tab
- Enter a nickname or leave as the default value.
- Enter the "Download Capacity" and "Upload Capacity" according to your internet connection. All values in iMule are kiloBytes (kB), but your Internet Service Provider's numbers are most likely kiloBits (kb).

  8 kiloBits make up 1 kiloByte, so if your Internet Connection is 768kb Downstream and 128kb Upstream (i.e. German Telekom DSL), your correct values are:

  `Downstream:` | 768kb / 8 = 96kB, so you enter 96 as "Download Capacity"
  `Upstream:` | 128kb / 8 = 16kB, so you enter 16 as "Upload Capacity"

  Anyway, these values are used to calculate the current bandwidth usage for display purposes only (mainly for statistics). Nevertheless, you need to know them to determine the following down/upload limits:

- Enter "Download Limit" and "Upload Limit" (IMPORTANT!)
  Download Limit:
    Leave this at 0, which stands for "no limit". However, if iMule uses too much bandwidth and causes problems with other applications using your internet connection, it would be a good idea to limit this to aproximetly 80% of your downstream capacity.
  Upload Limit:
    It is recommended that you set this limit to around 80% of your actual upstream capacity, in order to avoid degrading the performance of your connection.

  Setting the Upload Limit to a value less than 10 will automatically reduce your Download Limit after the following schema:

  Upload Limit | Max Download
  >= 10 | No limit
  < 10 | Upload Limit * 4
  < 4 | Upload Limit * 3

  NOTE: 56k Modem users: iMule only accepts integral values for these settings, you can't enter 1.6 or whatever your sweet-spot setting is. Sorry.

- "Maximum Connections":

  As a general rule, set it to 500 - 2000.

- "Maximum Sources per File":

  This depends on how many files you tend to download at a time, if you tend to download few files, high values are acceptable, otherwise go for lower values so that all files will be able to get sources.

- Choose the directories you want to share with other users:

  DO NOT SHARE YOUR COMPLETE HARDDISK!

  It is suggested that you either use the "Incoming" folder or a seperate folder for the files you wish to share, to avoid inadvertedly sharing private files.

  If you share more than 200 files, you should consider that some servers have a hard limit due to resource constraints, which means that you may be kicked from them if you share too many files or that some of your files won't be populated to the network through that server. So it is not always a good idea to share lots of files.

- Other:

  The other options are pretty self-explanatory. If you don't know what it does, don't touch it as a general rule. More information on getting started can be found in the iMule wiki: http://www.imule.org/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started

  Don't forget to connect to a server, or you probably won't download too much.