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Posted by: operation420.net

« on: November 17, 2020, 02:26:40 am »

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Quote from: Me Here on December 04, 2005, 07:16:18 pm

Below you will find a list of ports that are "normally" allocated to the application listed with them. The hopes of this list is to provide users that are victims of ISP port shaping some choices that might help them to better use and enjoy WinMX. I make no guarantees to these as they have to be tested by users on the ISPs that are doing the filtering, throttling, and blocking.

If you have any of the services listed beside the ports in use on your computer they will most likely conflict causing you to receive an error message. If this happens you will need to try a different port for WinMX.

The ports are listed with the protocol they use normally. Both meaning they are suitable for either TCP or UDP use with WinMX. This does NOT mean that you can set them up in a router, dsl modem, or firewall as BOTH. In most cases WinMX will only work correctly if you assign a separate port for each in your router, dsl modem, and firewalls. The description of BOTH below simply means you may assign it for either for WinMX to use, not both at the same time.

That said keep in mind that you will have to change these in your router, dsl modem, firewall, and anywhere else you had to set specific ports for WinMX for them to work correctly, as with any ports. If you need help with this visit the Tutorials section and choose the relevant pages to guide you.

1024 BOTH - Netmeeting
1503 TCP - Netmeeting
407 BOTH - Remote Control
1417-1420 TCP - Remote Control
427 BOTH - Service Location Protocol, used by Mac
548 BOTH - Apple Talk Filing Protocol
631 BOTH - Internet Printing Protocol
799 TCP - Remotely Possible Control IT
1352 TCP - Lotus Notes
1490, 6670, 25793 TCP - VocalTec Internet Phone 22555 UDP - VocalTec Internet Phone
1533 TCP - Virtual Places
1720 BOTH - H.323 host call
1723 TCP,BOTH - PPTP/virtual private network (VPN)
1921 TCP - Netopia netOctopus
1917 BOTH - Netopia netOctopus
3031 UDP - Program Linking, Remote Apple Events
3283 UDP - Apple Network Assistant
3389 BOTH - Remote Desktop Web Connection
3659 BOTH - Mac OS X Server Password Server
4747 UDP - secure phone
4899 BOTH - remote control
5000-5001 TCP - Yahoo Voice Chat
5000-5010 UDP - Yahoo Voice Chat
5100 TCP - Mac OS X camera and scanner sharing
5353 BOTH - Mac OS: About Multicast DNS.
5631 TCP - remote control
5632 UDP - remote control
5800+, 5900+ TCP - VNC
5988 TCP - Apple Remote Desktop 2.0 or later
9100 BOTH - PDL datastream

**If you have other ports you think would be good for folks to try please feel free to post them here also.
Keep in mind that if many users are on the same ports ISP will often adjust the software they use to disrupt your WinMX, in this case simply find some new ports. This is also the reason for this list, if we can spread this out with successful ports then, they are not as likely to be able to shape traffic on these ports.

Also remember that one user on an ISP may have luck with a set of ports that other users on that same ISP found didnt work for them. Be sure if you dont have luck with some to keep trying.

Hope this helps yall

Hahaha one time I was on a hotel and they had default SSH port 22 blocked so I set my VPS'es SSH server on IMAP port or something. From there I could SSH to ohter machines and port forward to and from the VPS over the secure tunnel.

I had to setup a socks proxy on localhost to use MX on one wifi network. I could also use SOCKS proxy through TOR for MX and do the same w/ Firefox or use Tor Browser to bypass fortiguard!!!

Posted by: heidi1174

« on: May 19, 2018, 06:53:48 pm »

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hello... im so glad to see this.. but i have no clue which ones i need.. im on windows 10. can you help at all please x

Posted by: Forested665

« on: March 18, 2009, 04:00:16 pm »

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if these addresses arent vital to your internet connection you can block them, if theyre using their DNS servers you can specify new ones before you firewall them. And if your on linux you can ignore ICMP requests (im not sure if theres a way to do it on windows). Find a website ,like google for instance, open a command prompt type

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tracert <address>replacing <address> with google.com and search the output for those addresses if they dont show up then they are not switches or hubs in use by your connection. if they show up i wouldnt suggest blocking them.

Posted by: schmidty169

« on: March 18, 2009, 03:08:07 am »

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All of a sudden every upload is dropping like flies. I check my logs and guess what?
Source IP    Host Name      Event Information
68.94.156.1    dnsr1.sbcglobal.net    UDP Port Scan
68.94.157.1    dnsr2.sbcglobal.net    UDP Port Scan 62159 (various port #'s)

Posted by: Xman01

« on: October 13, 2008, 11:34:16 pm »

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Yah looks like that is what is hapening I changed ports several times and get the same results. Thought it was me but then I noticed that I was getting ul from DSL users as well as Cable users some connect and get great dl speeds while others connect and then drop down until they time out...sucks..Iwas trading with a good group and theycant get or stay connected...

Posted by: Me Here

« on: October 13, 2008, 11:19:45 pm »

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Sounds like they may be Xman01, Many DSL and Cable companies world wide do throttle

Not alot to tell you about it if thats the case, obv your ports are fine and your settings if the others work ok.

Posted by: Xman01

« on: October 13, 2008, 08:23:44 pm »

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Help..ok I dont think I am being throttled but others are???? I can dl from others just fine..I can only get certain ppl to ul from me..I am finding that I can start and connect ppl w/ t1 t3+ unknown some dsl but have others that connect w/ dsl and cable and they connect and then speeds drop like a rock until they time out...

Posted by: SILVERSUJRFER

« on: September 21, 2008, 09:08:42 pm »

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Thanks for your advice. First of all, I have been using these settings for several years. My uploads were always fine, no problems where that is concerned, but just recently in the past several months my searches and downloads time out or the speed basically dropps to 0. I didn't have any commas entered in any of my values, just my post. Sorry about that. Anyway, I did take your advice and at first when I disconnected from all servers and let all of my uploads finish, then I forwarded all of the ports to the necessary values and verified that everything matched up. I could not get any seaches or any chatrooms, but all of my uploads were fine. Then I did , what I guess, I should have done in the firist place and completey shut down Winmx Completely and rebooted my PC. Upon, a restart the same thing starting happening again. So, I modified my dynamic IP address to a Static Ip and now everything seems to be working A okay. I can pull up about 1200 chatrooms and my searches seem back to normal. Btw, my speed/Bandwidth was never an issue as I test it daily at Speakeasy.net/speedtest/, which is the one of the best and free site there is out there for testing your BW. I have been a fulltime user of Winmx for about 10 years and really appreciate your assistance. Thanks for taking the time and helping out a stranger.

Posted by: Me Here

« on: September 14, 2008, 11:50:09 pm »

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Ok well to be honest this sounds more like throttling but you have to bear one thing in mind about this, most ISPs in most parts of the world do some kind of throttling, so even if its not Your ISP doing it it can still affect you when trying to get files from those users.

One thing that strikes me about your post,

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under Exceptions- I have Winmx1 tcp=16,699 and Winmx1 udp=16,257

The obvious thing to mention here is 'DONT' use any commas when you input the actual numbers into firewalls or routers, but you also said this:

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In Winmx, I have the following settings: TCP=5051; UDP= 10,000.

This will never work and if its actually how you have it set up I cant see how any of your uploads would ever start.

So you've posted in the WinMX Friendly ports area let me give you some advise for ports to use

WinMX TCP = 52300
WinMX UDP = 53200

The trick is to be absolutely sure that you have the same numbers used in both your firewall, the router rules, and in WinMX > Settings > Incoming TCP and In/Out UDP.

The other thing I'd like for you to do while your adjusting things is to test your speeds with a script on site here, and follow its recommendations as to how to set an Outgoing Limit in WinMX.
https://www.winmxworld.com/scripts/bandwidth/
This needs to be done with WinMX off and all web pages and other bandwidth using sites or programs closed, then reopen WinMX when its finished testing to adjust it as per the instructions. Limiting your uploads to a certain speed can insure that not all of your speeds/bandwidth is taken that way and enough is allocated to your downloads.

Next I'd like you to make sure that your Auto Enter Que and Auto Find Sources limits are set properly.
https://www.winmxworld.com/help/winmx-settings-search.html

Often users with larger files have longer queues and this can cause you problems as WinMX is only set by default to enter into ones as short as 10 or less. Setting this higher may mean you have to wait but at least your in line.

Again keep in mind here that files that start great and then peter down to 0.00 and then die this is a tale tell sign of ISP throttling, because your uploads dont do this, it leads me to believe that some of the users your finding for sources do infact have this problem, often will be left with a message 'Connection Reset By Peer' when infact its the ISP interferrance that is causing it and its no fault of yours or thiers, something to keep in mind.

Last you may want to go to a room and test downloads with someone that you are 'sure' has no limits or throttles and see what kinds of speeds you can get. If you need a room to do this in there are usually folks around in the
WinMXWorld.com Help_AE182F4EBABE

There you can go in and tell them you need to test download speeds on MX and if anyone is around that can help we will.

Let us know how you get along with all this...

Posted by: SILVERSUJRFER

« on: September 14, 2008, 02:45:38 pm »

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Hi Winmx 'Special' Elf!

  Thanks for responding so quickly to my question. I have VOIP with Vonage, I am using a Motorolla router. Model number is VT2442.
  In the Windows Firewall, under Exceptions- I have Winmx1 tcp=16,699 and Winmx1 udp=16,257 and Vonage1 tcp=5,061 and Vonage2 udp=10,000. I have these same ports forwarded in the router. The default user and password is router, router.
   My uploads are fine-good speed. I only pull up 2-4 chatrooms, even though I rarely use them. My dowloads work for small files like songs, but on larger files, I have to initiate them most of the time by browsing someone in my uploads with a tag in their Moniker of Mxm. Then my download starts and after several hours it is cancelled or times out. The speed basically drops to 0. On the otherhand, their upload is still going strong. I seem to do better with a Secondary connection, but really dislike it as I don't get very good results back on my searches. In Winmx, I have the following settings: TCP=5051; UDP= 10,000. Also, I use SpySweeper and have allowed winmxm. I use Spybot-Search & Destroy and it is fine. I also use AVG and really don't see any conflicts with that either. I miss my good downloads. Thanks for any help that you may offer. You are too kind.

Posted by: Me Here

« on: September 14, 2008, 12:56:46 pm »

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HI Silversujrfer,

Its difficult to tell from your post if your speeds are just slow on WinMX or if the transfers are not working at all for larger files. Can you give us more info.

What rotuer (make and model) do you have?
In the windows firewall did you set ports up in that?
What happens to larger files that is causing you concern (be specific)?
How are your uploads they seem ok? or are speeds slow or do they not start (be specific here too)?

Posted by: SILVERSUJRFER

« on: September 13, 2008, 09:32:43 pm »

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I have cable and use a router for my phone (Vonage). I use Winmx 3.54 beta 4. My OS is Windows XP and my ISP is Charter. Do you know any good working ports for the vonage router. For the past two weeks, I am been pretty unable to finish any downloads on larger files, but am able to get small files, like songs, etc. I test my speed at Speekeasy.net and it seems okay, as far as my upload and download speed. Any recommendations. In the advanced section of the windows based firewall, I have verified that winmx is being allowed in the exceptions section.

Posted by: ice51

« on: July 24, 2008, 12:25:34 am »

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Quote from: Me Here on September 18, 2007, 11:51:20 pm

you use the same port in all boxes Charlie

base host port and global range all need to match..

Posted by: natesuniverse

« on: June 30, 2008, 02:33:09 am »

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Yeh I know it's doing it's job, Just though maybe winmx need those ports maybe for some odd reason but most everthing looking good right now. Only couple of timeouts. So I'll just leave it alone.

Thx for getting back though.

Posted by: Me Here

« on: June 30, 2008, 12:05:06 am »

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well then your router is doing its job is all I'd take from that really, its meant to allow packets of TCP on a port you specify and allow udp on a port you specify (although udp can be more hap hazzard if your running primary, its not as specific of a protocol exchange) and to drop those that are on ports you didnt open so I would again just not worry about it too much for now.