doran65
June 1st, 2002, 05:51 PM
I jusy recently installed a router to use with my cable modem. Everything was working fine until I tried using WinMX. I can download all that I want but I can not upload/share my files with anyone else. I hate people that don't share and I want to share my files. If anyone has any advice it would really help me out. Thanks
eclectica
June 2nd, 2002, 12:03 AM
I had the same problem with my router. The way to resolve it is to map TCP port 6699 and UDP port 6257 from the public domain to the local computer. You could use other ports, but those are the ones WinMX uses by default. You can verify your WinMX settings by going to settings-->internet connection and then checking that both "incoming TCP connections" and "in/out UDP packets" match the ports on your router.
The reason why you have to do this is because your local computer has a different IP address than your internet IP address, so the router has to map the individual ports in order to connect them. The router does not restrict you for outgoing but only for incoming connections, by default. Your local IP address can be found by running winipcfg, while your internet address can be found here:
http://www.ipchicken.com
Here is a screenshot of my router settings. As you can see, I have two computers hooked up two it, one with local IP address 192.168.254.110 and the other with address 192.168.254.153. The one with 153 as the last digits is also set up for WinMX, but the ports are different from the default there (or otherwise I wouldn't be able to have set it up for both computers) so I also had to make the same matching adjustments in WinMX on that computer.
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2fwz4/router_settings.jpg