MLDonkey

[rayt]

What does "nothing seems to happen" mean? Doesn't it even appear in your download list? I'm using mldonkey since years (on linux) and I'm very happy with it, although it sometimes takes a long time till files with only a few sources are donwloaded. Also, if your computer is behind a router/firewall you should forward the mldonkey ports (4661 and 4662 if I'm not wrong).

[rayt]

It's connected to Sweex router and ADSL. I'm not aware of any firewall but how do I go about forwarding ports?

Please excuse my ignorance here. Never really used MLdonkey.

First you have to figure out if your router supports port forwarding (most newer models do so). Then you have to look up in the configuration of the router where you can configure it. You have to forward the ports from your router to the corresponding ports of your pegasos (whith a static ip). For example if your pegasos local ip is 192.168.3.9 you would need to configure the router to forward port 4661-4662 tcp and 4665-4556 udp to the same ports of your pegasos(192.168.3.9 in this example). I'm not really sure if thats all ports you have to forward, but on google you will find lots of threats on this topic. The only thing is to figure out how to configure your router.

[rayt]

hmmm - nothing in the contents list of thew manual for port forwarding or firewall. Would this be under a particular section? (i.e. Admin privelidge - ADSL configuration or something?)

I found this on google, if this is your router it might be useful.

[rayt]

Is this a problem?

hmm I don't know, it might be enough to only forward port 4662, as this is the port on which mldonkey communicates to other clients.
The other option (and probably the best if you want to download lots of stuff with mldonkey) would be to replace your router with with an old linux pc running the mldonkey core and controlling it via telnet/browser/gui from your pegasos.
I'm doing it like this and my mldonkey runs 24/7, which is the only way you can decently download stuff from the donkey network imho.