Went to rocks tutorial and tried that the first settings gave me "winmx could not find a port and is now in passive firewall mode" the second set works ok for D/L no up loads though.

No Router

Hmmmm sounds kind of like Myie2. I'm using it now and I like it, stable. Almost no popups, tabbed browsing and lots of plug ins and tools to get for it and it fast. They have changed the name to Maxthon now.

http://www.myie2.com/html_en/home.htm

Freerip is great. Fast and best of all free!
I also use dbPower for normalizing the volume of my mp3's.

ok here I go, System specs AMD Athlon XP 2.2 gig cpu 256 ddr pc 2700 1 wetern digital 40 gig HDD 1 western digital 120 gig HDD Gigabyte 2004 rz mobo D-link 10/100 ether net card Teryon cable modem (no router) Windows XP home sp2 Winmx v3.53 Cable connection at 5.0/5.3 mbps Windows firewall is off I'...

OK here it goes. I can d/l from mx but very few can d/l from me. cable connection. sygate firewall tweaked to allow the proper ports. on a primary connection to winmx the users who can download from me are on all diffrent connections 56k T1 cable etc. so I don't think thats an issue. They will sit u...