MSN Messenger 7 ports

[Potatoman]

Hi all. Still having problems with this 'ere router. File transfer in MSN is soooo slow. I traced the problem back to the router. All i need to know is what ports MSN uses so i can allow it thru the firewall for file transfer. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. PM

[OBonio]

Is it a UPnP router? If so, MSN should open the ports it needs automatically...

[Potatoman]

Yes, iv enabled uPnP on the router. But the file transfer is still slow as you like.

[quickthinker]

If it was the ports then you wouldnt even get a connection, you would have 0bps download instead of it being slow.

I suggest the router is not the problem
MSN has a problem with Windows 2000 when NAT is enabled on a router
see

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q278887

for info

BTW MSN Ports are

Messenger  1863        Outgoing pass through
                   6901        inc Connection
                   6891-6900   inc Data & Voice

MSN GameZone (PC)   6667
                                  28800-29000
MSN GameZone (DS    2300-2400
                                  47624

Netmeeting    1720 & 1503

You would be better using port forwarding if you are experiencing problems with connection.
I suspect that the download you are refering to is from another user in which case the download
will never be faster than 256K about 25Kbps and usually will hang around 19Kbps due to the
uploaders overhead.