sbcyahoo blocking winmx?

[winmxfan2005]

i have sbcyahoo as my ISP and have always used winmx with no connection problems until about 1 week ago when suddenly people became unable to upload from me,although i can download fine.my dsl modem/router is configured to accept winmx,so i suspect that sbcyahoo has started blocking some winmx ports.i was wondering if there were other sbcyahoo customers having this same upload problem,and if they or anyone can help me solve this problem because i'm not particulary computer literate and want to share!thanks in advance(p.s..almost forgot,in case it's important,my dsl modem/router is 2wire)

[Me Here]

WinMxfan,

As far as I am aware at this time there are only a few dsl companies that are engaging in this practice..SbcYahoo is not one of them to my knowledge..

So the first thing to be sure of is that your router is configured properly.. now the ports I realize can be set and the router still not be quite right.. because once in a great while when you boot everything up the router assigns a new Internal IP to that particular machine. This is often the culprit of this problem your describing.  

You can find out what a machines internal IP is by doing the following, go to Start > Programs > Accessories > Command/MSDos prompt, in the box type in 'ipconfig' for getting the ip of one machine.

Make sure that is still matching up with what you have in the router.. if it does match..sometimes rebooting the modem might help or deleting your previous rules and remaking them too..

Also any recent changes such as firewalls., updates from microsoft or new antivirus..?

[winmxfan2005]

only change is a different computer,but i still have the same settings setup that has always worked fine in the past.i've tried other port fotwarding and all looks well but the problem persists.it shouldn't(to the best of my limited knowledge)matter that this is a different computer with the same modem/router i've always had,but since that's the only thing that's changed and the problems never occured until i had this computer it's looking more and more that somehow this is the source of the problem.but how to correct it i have no idea.the OS is XP2,sp2,and as stated the modem/router is 2wire,i don't know much about these things,but i sure miss being able to share.anymore suggestions/help much apreciated,thanks again

[nylly444]

I know this sounds like a dumb question - but did you disable the xp firewall (which is enabled by default) ?

[winmxfan2005]

not a dumb question at all,as i had a similar thought.but,alas,it made no difference

[nylly444]

Then Me is right - you need to check wether the internal ip of your new pc is the same as the old one. The ip is kind of like the postal code for your pc, so if it is wrong all the traffic packets won't reach you
So do as Me said above or if you're using your network card to connect to the modem you could check in the properties of that as well. The ip of your computer needs to match the ip adress in all the rules you made, if not you need to reconfigure the router or assign a new ip adress to your computer.

[cadillaczack]

I was very happy to get my winmx back after a 4 months, but I am having the same problem as winmxfan2005. I, too have SbcYahoo, but am running Win98, with the 2wire router. I am running a primary because I can't pick up anybody on secondary where I'm at. My downloads go ultra-smooth, but nobody can upload from me (they time out) and it also seems that secondaries can't connect to me either. This drives me up the wall because I have a ton of ultra rare songs that nobody can get access to. This in my second day of being back on the WinMx network. I think this may actually be a SBC problem. Somebody please help me out too!!

[Stevi]

cadillaczack

Do you have your ports forwarded in your router correctly?

[cadillaczack]

Wow! Thanx for the fast response. Yes the ports are correct.

[cadillaczack]

ran shields up on my computer.... said my ports were "stealth"... now my own mp3's show up on the download screen (as if i can download off my own computer)... is there some kind of crazy conflict going on? I ran WinMx with  DSL with no problems before WinMx was shut down in Sept.  Nothing has been changed since. I even still had WinMx on my computer, hoping that one day it would funtion again.... lo and behold....

[Me Here]

Cadillaczack,

Can you tell us a bit more

What ports are set up on WInMx?
What ports and how are they listed on the router?
What version of WinMx are you using?
What patch do you have?
Also what firewalls and antivirus do you use?

[cadillaczack]

Was finally able to figure out the problem - it was a program conflict. Now I'm a 24hr primary connection. Thanx for the help! 1000+ more songs now available for downloading

[Me Here]

Awesome!!