I used it once, just terrible. I'd advise you to use Torrents and DDL's. Ares is good for music however. Also, a good torrent site would be www.torrent-finder.com
Well ye Emule is kinda okay.. But it still seems tod ownload slower in my opinion.. and i always want some movies which are ofc some months older which got less seeds/sources.. Newsleecher are pretty fine i heard perhaps you shoulda try that out?
STICK WITH OTHER P2Ps!!! try to avoid emule.... ive said it before, and i still stand by it: single songs - limewire movies, albums, porn, softwares, programs - torrent and all of the above - DIRECT DOWNLOAD lol i kid about the porn XDDD
i used to have emule.. i thought it was ok.. but then for some reason, i dl'ed limewire and deleted emule.. one thing i noticed is that limewire doesn't read chinese, so that was a disadvantage
i never liked emule used it once and all i got were spyware and viruses and all i was d/ling was music!
As everyone said, you need to forward your ports. Under Options - Connections, you can see which ports to forward. You can also test if they are already forwarded.