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TankGirl · 27-03-02, 05:53 AM

A word about ZoneAlarm and WinMX. My experience is that it is best to declare yourself as not firewalled in WinMX if you use ZA. This brings much more material available to you and ZA does not prevent transfers in most of the cases, even if the user at the other end is using ZA too.

Another connectivity observation that may save a lot of frustration from you: if you shut down WinMX and then restart it without rebooting in between you may have a situation where virtually all uploads time out. In this case (in WinMX 2.6) go to Settings | Connection | Firewall / Network Settings and change your port numbers. If for example you have had port 6601 for incoming TCP connections and 6602 for incoming UDP packets change them to 6603 and 6604 (I have used any numbers in range 5000-10000 without problems). Note that when you change the port settings you get automatically disconnected from any servers you have logged into so this is better to do before connecting into opennap servers or WPNP.

- tg

Thanks for the special compliment Snark, I seem to have a fan!

27-03-02, 05:53 AM	#7
TankGirl Madame Comrade Join Date: May 2000 Location: Area 25 Posts: 5,587	A word about ZoneAlarm and WinMX. My experience is that it is best to declare yourself as not firewalled in WinMX if you use ZA. This brings much more material available to you and ZA does not prevent transfers in most of the cases, even if the user at the other end is using ZA too. Another connectivity observation that may save a lot of frustration from you: if you shut down WinMX and then restart it without rebooting in between you may have a situation where virtually all uploads time out. In this case (in WinMX 2.6) go to Settings \| Connection \| Firewall / Network Settings and change your port numbers. If for example you have had port 6601 for incoming TCP connections and 6602 for incoming UDP packets change them to 6603 and 6604 (I have used any numbers in range 5000-10000 without problems). Note that when you change the port settings you get automatically disconnected from any servers you have logged into so this is better to do before connecting into opennap servers or WPNP. - tg Thanks for the special compliment Snark, I seem to have a fan!