Author Topic: Do I have to do this every time? (Read 1284 times)

KittyBass · « **on:** February 24, 2007, 06:54:26 pm »

I live in a place where the power trips all the time so I lose my connection to WinMX. So every time this happens my router shuts off. As if reloading all of those files in WinMX isn´t enough a pain, it seems that I have to change my port settings every time I restart as well. Why is that?

Lagerlout666 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 24, 2007, 07:40:55 pm »

you need to make a static ip for you network card, if you make a static ip then one lot of settings will suffice if you post you router model ill pass you to a site that wil showyou how to set up a static IP

KittyBass · « **Reply #2 on:** February 24, 2007, 07:52:43 pm »

Ok, that would be great. It took me an hour to load up all those files and search again!

J a M e S · « **Reply #3 on:** February 24, 2007, 08:12:34 pm »

abit drastic - you could use a ups - Un interupable power supply - these can be found on ebay quite cheap

KM · « **Reply #4 on:** February 24, 2007, 08:35:54 pm »

set a static IP Address on your computer so your computers LAN IP Address doesn't change

https://www.winmxworld.com/tutorials/static_ip.html - if you do it following those instructions then you must do it for every computer on the network because those instructions tell you how to do it in a way that will conflict with the automatic IP Addressing

then forward in the router to there, if your router is actually losing the port forwarding then it may be that you aren't saving the settings in the router, some routers will let you add a port forwarding that works straight away, but won't actually save it until you click save - so looks for a save (or save and restart) button in the router config

and a UPS for the computer is a very good idea, because routers don't care about having their power suddenly turned off, TVs don't mind having the power suddenly turned off, but computers really don't do well if the power dies in the middle of writing some important system file... files being corrupted all the time is likely to cause serious problems if you just let it keep doing it without getting it sorted out, and you just know that the day when your system refuses to boot up because of it will be the day you are running late and just need to quickly get that important presentation...

KittyBass · « **Reply #5 on:** February 24, 2007, 10:06:43 pm »

I do have a UPS for the computer, thank goodness. It´s not just my apartment that loses electricity. Mostly everyone I know in this town suffers from circuits tripping for some reason or another. I´ve had this computer 3 weeks and have lost power about 4 times this week alone.