WinMX

[JamesBond007]

Hey,
I have WindowsXP Pro as OS and I have a cable internet at home. When I was running the earlier version of WinMX which is 3.1, I had no problems in downloading. As I installed their latest version (WinMX 3.22 released on Jun 24th), installation is fine. I connect fine (actually after several attempts). If WinMx is running my computer automatically gets rebooted. It could be that I am connected, or just browsing for files, or have some files in the queue, it reboots my machine randomly. I tried to uninstall WinMx 3.22 and Install it again with no success. It still reboots my machine randomly. Now, I know it is WinMX because if I dont have that running, I can browse internet, play games on internet, do my work etc.
Your help in this matter is much much appreciated.

[goweropolis]

Did you try switching from primary to secondary connection? I find the secondary connection more stable.

[MickeyMan]

Hi , I agree with goweropolis although I have DSL and under connection type is suggests using primary, I found that using the secondary connection is far better, the program runs really well, no crashes or rebooting.

[JamesBond007]

If I just select the Secondary Connection, is that enough. Or How do I go about making a secondary connection?? Are there any settings I need to make to chose secondary connection.

[Wolfie]

just select secondary connection on the network window on winmx. It should take care of it.

[goweropolis]

I have DSL and under connection type is suggests using primary

Hey MickeyMan, I have DSL also. It's too bad I have to select secondary connection to maintain the stability of the program. My question is, does it make a huge difference to my ability to use the network? Even on secondary connections, I get a lot of search results, so maybe the primary connection is purely helping the network (similar to the Ultrapeer concept on Gnutella) as opposed to improving the performance of my machine.

[MickeyMan]

When I used primary connection the ram resources were soaked up and I would have to disconnect then reconnect to bring this back to normal after a couple of hours, also this would make the Winmx program become very slow when moving from one operation to another. Since changing to secondary I have had no problems at all, the searches come up really quickly and if I use OpenNap servers I always get approx. 15 to 20 million file after about 10 minutes of connecting, can sometimes be slower depending on demand. My download and upload speeds are good, and I must say I have no complaints. I have also changed the TCP and UDP settings.