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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"
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Upstream:
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128kb / 8 = 16kB, so you enter 16 as "Upload Capacity"
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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:
Setting the Upload Limit to a value less than 10 will automatically reduce your Download Limit after the following schema:
Upload Limit | Max Download
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>= 10 | No limit
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< 10 | Upload Limit * 4
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< 4 | Upload Limit * 3
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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.
As a general rule, set it to 500 - 2000.
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.
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.
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.