I have an IBM laptop 500 MHz, 128 ram, 6 g hd running Windows 98. I installed, reinstalled, deleted using regedit any trace of xolox, installed again (tried one by one all versions) (I have them all), downloaded hostlists, nothing works. I have a dial up connection and I am not behind a firewall. Xolox just try to connect to the network but it never connect. Any suggestion greatly appreciated. Thank you.


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With 1.32 and 1.4 beta, I downloaded from this site a hostlist (6 kb) in xolox folder, started xolox, no connection of course but what is weird is that after I close xolox, the hostlist file loses all the info that were before (file size is zero); it seems that is updated after every xolox lanch.

You actually do not need to get a new host list with the new versions of Xolox because they support caches. However, it seems that there is something preventing Xolox from accesing the outside at all. Check that prot 6346 is open in your firewall.

I am not using any firewall?!?

Sorry I misread your post...

What ISP are you using? Some ISPs have started to block p2p traffic.

I use AOL; thank you for all your help

AOL is one of the first ISPs to start interfearing with p2p traffic. Try changing the port number Xolox uses by using the force IP feature in the advanced networking properties.

When I open advanced network options panel, Force local IP and Port fields are emtpy; I don't know what to "force". Xolox should be build like Winmx which doesn't have such problems with AOL. Anyhow from Winmx I saw it uses port 6699 so I enterned that in Xolos port; I can not find the ISP number in this damned Windows envorinment (in Mac I can find it right away). Please give more details and if xolox people read this maybe they can do something so it can be used whatever ISP I use. I use Winmx, Bearshare, eDonkey, Audiognome with no problem from AOL. Thansk

it is empty is it is set to default settings. Type in your IP and a alternate port number. (not 6346, which is the standard) You can check your IP several ways. The simplest is to type "ipconfig" at the command prompt. (you need to open a dos window)

Those setting are too complicated for me and time consuming; I want just to search not to fix xolox to work. Sorry Xolox, when it will be fixed maybe I will try it again. Lucky that Winmx still works. thans for your help.