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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions TCP ports and file sharing Post 46531 by cbkihong on Monday 19th of January 2004 08:46:17 AM
Old 01-19-2004
I have used WinMX before. I don't have problems with either of the two connection methods. Are you sure that you are not blocked (say, by your ISP) if you want to make a primary connection? In case of making primary connection, you are connecting directly to WinMX servers, which may be easily blocked. However, for secondary connections you connect to a node that has a primary connection established to the server, which in turn acts as a server for you.

In my experience, the download speed for either mode doesn't really differ much because your download doesn't have to proxy through the primary node. Once the download has started the connection is directly between you and the remote party who shares the files with you. If you can't get primary connection to work you are only left with the secondary connection option.
 

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TCPCONNECT(1)						      General Commands Manual						     TCPCONNECT(1)

NAME
tcpconnect - general TCP/IP client SYNOPSIS
tcpconnect [-irv] [-l localaddr] host port DESCRIPTION
tcpconnect creates a TCP/IP connection to a server running on the machine host, listening to port port. It then reads standard input and sends to the remote server, and data received from the server is printed to standard output. When end-of-file is reached on both standard input and the TCP/IP connection, tcpconnect terminates. OPTIONS
-i Terminate at end-of-file on standard input; don't wait for the server to close the connection. -r Terminate when the remote server closes the connection; don't wait for end-of-file on standard input. -v Verbose mode. Prints a message to standard error when the connection has been established. -l addr:port Bind the local end-point of the connection to IP address addr, TCP port port. Either the IP address or the port, but not both, may be left out, meaning that the operating system gets to choose that part by itself. SEE ALSO
tcplisten(1), telnet(1), tcpbug(1). BUGS
The names of the options are not yet finalized, and may change at a future release. 1997 April 13 TCPCONNECT(1)
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