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I had a chat room going for a long time on WinMX v. 3.53. Then, one day, someone came in and said they were going to shut down my room. The next day noone could enter my chat room. I uninstalled windows xp home sp1 because I had some security issues with it. I installed windows xp pro sp2. I had to UNinstall sp2 just to be able to OPEN a chat room because of the connection limitations with sp2. Now, I can open a room, but, noone can get in the room. I have norton 2003 but that never conflicted before. I changed my ip address. I allowed winmx thru norton and turned off windows firewall. I have tried a few other things including UNinstalling and REinstalling winmx about a hundred times to no avail. Can someone....anyone....suggest anything at all that i can do?

Frank

Hi Frank

I would start to go at http://www.mxtools.net, in the tools section there is a porttester. I would start to test your winmx ports there to see if they are opened up and reachable from the outside. Th ussual ports are tcp 6699 and udp 6257. You can find them in your winmx settings. Once you got the result, write it down and post it here. We go from there.

In fact this is the complete addy
http://www.mxtools.net/index.php?sectio ... age=tester

port 6699

Unable to recieve Crypt Key - Target WinMX may not be hosting any channnels

port 6257

Unable to connect, Connection was not accepted by the remote system, Check your firewall/router settings!

It is also possible that your ISP may be blocking this port

i think my cable company has started blocking ports....as other companies are now doing. pretty soon there wont be any winmx.

read this:
http://slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7696

if u can think of anything else i can do...lemme know. otherwise...ty for your help

Frank

Hi Frank.

I seen you talking yesterday in the cricketmx chatroom to mrs me here about the issue of the isp blocking the ports.
I remember mrs me here saying you should complain at your isp, i am sure you will get an answer from them if they are blocking the ports or not.
That would be my step 1 also. Off course there could be more reasons why this problem occurs.
First we have (if you have one off course) the forwarding of ports in your router. The router has to know what to do with incoming and outgoing trafic on those two ports tcp 6699 and udp 6257.
Second there is the issue of the firewall (and again if you have one off course), a firewall as well will need to have the ports as above opened for trafic otherwise the testwesite you visited will give the same error.
Some people even don't know they have a firewall, if for instance you use Windows XP threre are even two possibilities. One is you don't have service pack 2 installed, then there is a firewall in your network tab, rightclick on the connection you use go to properties and then the last tab of it, make sure it is off.
Second if you use service pack 2 it has a firewall itself. In this one ports are to be opened, for more info on how you can look at my website http://computerlandchat.tk in the section XP service pack2.

There is even more possibilities, but i doubt if those are set wrong for you, first you should have set the bandwidth of winmx unlimited and second you need to have a primary connection.

On your worries about the isp blocking ports i have an interesting suggestion, you can change the ports winmx uses in the settings, i know it works even in the 16000 range, i wonder if those ports are blocked as well.
You could try to use tcp port 16000 and udp 16020 for instance, but don't forget, router and firewall must be opened/forwarded as well off course.

Now i hope this brings you something on the issue, good luck and please post here what you discover.