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Deathbob replied on November 06, 2009 23:14 to the problem "Wuala causes internet (http) freeze" in Wuala:

Very strange. Does enabling compatibility mode change anything?

I'm at a loss. Wuala SHOULD not be able to crash other applications. For kicks and giggles, have you tried reinstalling Wuala?

A comment on the problem "Wuala causes internet (http) freeze" in Wuala:

Also, it is Wuala. Wuala is more aggressive than bittorrent with UDP connections, but that shouldn't crash windows applications, just poorly factory configured NAT routers/gateways. In my experience my gateway modem would crash when running wuala, it was from a stupidly high factory setting of DAYS.

Bittorrent will typicly/ideally maintain the same connections thorough the entire download, Wuala will change connections because a single computer only has a small fragment of your files. – Deathbob, on November 06, 2009 17:42

Deathbob replied on November 06, 2009 17:33 to the problem "Wuala causes internet (http) freeze" in Wuala:

Hmm. Looks to me like your system is infected,
http://www.processlibrary.com/directo...
I'd recommend running http://www.malwarebytes.org/
If you don't mind, I'd also throw Spybot Search & Destroy at it http://www.safer-networking.org/

Deathbob replied on October 29, 2009 23:17 to the problem "Backing Up Very Large Files and Maintaining Schedule Backups" in Wuala:

200G (Falls off chair)

On the photo front, many small files can be VERY slow. It is a side effect of the way files are stored.

Can you reproduce the problem again? It is possible there is some bug with large files.

A comment on the problem "Connection type D: Not suitable for trading storage" in Wuala:

unless you moved the Data folder, there should not be an Old Installation. – Deathbob, on October 25, 2009 22:35

Deathbob replied on October 24, 2009 16:20 to the problem "Connection type D: Not suitable for trading storage" in Wuala:

http://www.wuala.com/en/support/faq/c...

A comment on the question "Downloading fast crashs my Internet connection" in Wuala:

Sounds very close to hitting the connection limit, crashing and rebooting. – Deathbob, on October 24, 2009 09:53

A comment on the question "Downloading fast crashs my Internet connection" in Wuala:

DDOS protection. Now there's a feature I have never seen before. But then again I saw a captcha on a router for the first time last week. – Deathbob, on October 24, 2009 09:40

A comment on the question "Downloading fast crashs my Internet connection" in Wuala:

http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewt...

I thought I found another, but can't seem to now. Was a long day and had internet troubles myself, dying hard drive. The usual ;). Maybe I imagined it, after translating so many pages to a poor english and trying to decipher it I could see anything I wanted.

Only thing I can recommend, is if you can try borrowing another VDSL modem and see if it does the same thing.

As for it working a few months ago, the number of connections varies whenever they change anything. They did reduce it quite a bit a few months ago, maybe its picked up some more bulk. – Deathbob, on October 24, 2009 09:38

Deathbob replied on October 24, 2009 02:04 to the problem "Connection type D: Not suitable for trading storage" in Wuala:

Strange. Have you tried rebooting the router?
Also, your files won't be deleted.

Deathbob replied on October 23, 2009 23:08 to the question "Downloading fast crashs my Internet connection" in Wuala:

I did see a few reports of people discussing having trouble with that and similar VDSL modems. Since I don't know German I'm not sure if I can figure out what options you may have to make the modem more robust.

Deathbob replied on October 23, 2009 22:47 to the problem "Connection type D: Not suitable for trading storage" in Wuala:

Make sure Wuala didn't magically change ports in options.

A comment on the question "Downloading fast crashs my Internet connection" in Wuala:

Also what is the brand & model number? – Deathbob, on October 23, 2009 17:37

Deathbob replied on October 23, 2009 17:37 to the question "Downloading fast crashs my Internet connection" in Wuala:

Do you know if the gateway modem (your vdsl modem) is running linux? Can you telnet to it?

Deathbob replied on October 21, 2009 22:37 to the question "Downloading fast crashs my Internet connection" in Wuala:

Wuala, being P2P, uses many UDP connections. This can stress certain consumer grade routers and modems. I had to hack some settings on my DSL modem to make it more stable.

Try taking any routers out of the loop to see if it is the modem.

A comment on the problem "Startup fails under Win7 RTM" in Wuala:

;) – Deathbob, on October 20, 2009 20:44

Deathbob replied on October 20, 2009 20:14 to the problem "Startup fails under Win7 RTM" in Wuala:

Uncheck run as administrator. Wuala doesn't need privileges.

Deathbob replied on October 20, 2009 17:34 to the problem "Startup fails under Win7 RTM" in Wuala:

Hmm, thats odd. Wuala should not result in a UAC prompt. (Windows Vista and higher will not start applications at startup that need a UAC Prompt).

Make sure on the compatibility tab that nothing is checked, especially "Run this program as administrator".

Deathbob replied on October 20, 2009 17:07 to the problem "Startup fails under Win7 RTM" in Wuala:

In the start menu, it should add a shortcut under the Startup folder.
Is the shortcut there? If it is, does it open Wuala? Does it open a window or put an icon in the tray?

If it isn't there, please also check this folder for me.
C:\Users\[Your Windows Username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

A comment on the problem "Startup fails under Win7 RTM" in Wuala:

I'm sorry if that sounded like a "Works for me" blow off. If I've learned anything from volunteering here, it's that systems that seem identical can work very differently.

I meant it as a "I have one of those too (7 is still pretty rare).", hopefully we can get to the bottom of this.

So I'll be investigating why Start Wuala when I start my computer doesn't work.
Did you not select it when you installed Wuala? I wonder if it works during install but not in options. – Deathbob, on October 20, 2009 16:37