Author Topic: Cant get search results (Read 1109 times)

noxxzious · « **on:** August 23, 2007, 04:27:00 am »

When I search, I dont get any results... even for previously "sure hits" like "Jenna Jameson".
Ports are open and people can download from me.

any ideas?

tig · « **Reply #1 on:** August 23, 2007, 05:22:10 am »

Hi Noxxzious

Are you running a firewall?

Me Here · « **Reply #2 on:** August 23, 2007, 01:09:07 pm »

This depends Noxxzious also are you running secondary or primary.

If your on Secondary then go to the network page and refresh your connection. When it says Online again try those searches again. If you still cant get any you may need to repeat the process or to make sure its not your search term causing it or no results are online at this time for some files.

If your running on Primary then this could be a UDP issue. Search results are via udp and Uploads from you are TCP. Double check you have a seperate UDP port set up in any router or firwall.

Post back and let us know.

Noxxzious · « **Reply #3 on:** August 23, 2007, 04:17:39 pm »

YEs, the firewall has the ports 6699 and 6257 open and forwarded, that should be both UDP and TCP types. Its a Linksys switch with internal software firewall on a cable modem connection.
I am on primary connection to Win MX.

I alos seem to have bandwidth issues with my ISP too, if that makes any difference.
One minute I get as low as 33kbps then later I can get up to 2.2 Mbps so I dont know if its my stuff or ComCast crap. All this used to work perfectly under Road Runner ISP a month ago, with no changes.

I am running mx monitor 128Eb and WinMX 3.54 beta 4, if that makes any difference.

I seemed to get some search results in the first 1 minute after network connection but then nothing.

noxxzious · « **Reply #4 on:** August 24, 2007, 04:18:53 pm »

Today it suddenly seems to be working normally, no changes were made .... I have no idea why.

Thanks

Me Here · « **Reply #5 on:** August 25, 2007, 12:35:31 am »

Glad to hear its working, I have my suspicions as to what caused this for you and they are down to Linksys being about the worst modem/router when it comes to changing the IP you have set up in your rules. I hope one day they will move to firmware that allows you to select the computer by name rather then IP.

If this happens to you again its probably going to be best to set up a static IP address for it to use so it wont use different ones arbitrarily during reboots. Its pretty easy and the directions for doing so on various OS systems are here:

http://www.portforward.com/networking/staticip.htm

Let us know if you need anything else