Re: THANK YOU

[Anonymous]

tHANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR WORKING AGAIN !!!!  yOU ARE GREAT!!!
       
          GO ON... GO ON......

ONLINE PRIMARY CONNECTION,STILL CANT UPLOAD OR DOWNLOAD FILES  Gus 553

[Bearded Blunder]

Unable to upload/download is usually a port problem, either not forwarded by modem/router, or blocked (firewall or Internet Service Provider).

I'd recommend having a look at these settings, in particular check if port forwarding needs to be set, many cable/dsl modems include router capabilities, even though they only have one connection from your PC.  A visit to www.portforward.com may yeild instructions for your modem/router.   Setting non-standard ports in both WinMX & router config can help if it's ISP, if they block, it's often the standard ports they block, sometimes changing bypasses this.

[Gus Morrison]

winxp home no firewall,shaw cable,patch installed,3,54beta 4 . no router straight cable connect.will not upload or download  connects but times out . HELP.Gus.

[Me Here]

Okay Gus,

I need you to make sure if your using XP that the firewall has not enabled itself without you knowing, incidently I think its wise especially with XP to have some sort of firewall protection, so you may want to use the XP and map the ports that WinMX is set to use through it.

Instructions on that here:
https://www.winmxworld.com/tutorials/firewall.html

Also its worthy to note here that Shaw is using a few forms of filtering and throttling of your P2P use, well for many of their cutomers this is true, and you may be one of  them.  If they are doing this in your area changing the ports that WinMX normally uses may also help you with this.

Change the ports you use in WinMX, some that have been used that folks have had success with are  the following:

Listen on 1720 for TCP
Send and receive on port 39 for UDP.

Listen on 1035 for TCP
Send and receive on 443 UDP.

Listen on 58202 for TCP
Send and receive on 61202 UDP

Listen on 1547 for TCP
Send and receive on 5631 UDP

These are some ports that have been proven to work, not in all cases tho.. but its worth a try.

To change ports go to WinMX Settings> Internet Connection > Incoming TCP ...
Then IN/OUT UDP...
Make the needed changes there, be sure to also change these in any firewalls, router/modems that you have forwarded for specific ports.

If you only changed in WinMX a restart of WinMX is all that is necessary for  them to take effect.  
If you made changes to any firewalls or router configurations its best to reboot  the computer.

Normally its the Upload traffic that is affected by the ISP, or your downloads and uploads will at least connect but then slow to a crawl, so what I mean is you will usually have download ability even if your ISP is filtering p2p.  

Another thing you might try is to set your Ports in WinMX to 'Unable' for both Incoming TCP and IN/OUT UDP.. then restart as a secondary connection.  IF this works then its more then likely a settings issue and not your ISP.