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| Nick Gammon
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| Thanks for clarifying. It doesn't totally surprise me that you can send but not receive, for the simple reason that sending and receiving take somewhat different paths in the program. Sending is in response to (usually) something you type, whereas receiving is asynchronous (that is, we don't know when something is going to arrive), and the Winsock DLL (Windows Sockets) raises an event to let the client know there is data waiting.
If this event is not raised, or swallowed up somehow, then the client will just sit there quietly.
It might be worth trying to do what was suggested earlier, from a command window, enter:
netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable
If that doesn't work (that is, an error message), try Googling for the error message, or using the inbuilt help, to work out why, and keep going until it accepts that command.
Then I would try this:
- Try telnet that comes with windows (Start Menu -> Run -> telnet). See if that works.
- Try another client (eg. zMud, SimpleMu). If they all work, but MUSHclient does not, you have narrowed the problem down to something MUSHclient is doing.
- Ask around (eg. on the MUD, although I know it is hard if you can't connect). Are other people using Vista? Are other people using Vista and MUSHclient succesfully?
I have been browsing the web a bit to try to get clarification. A few postings suggest that a lot of people are having problems with Vista because "routers are not Vista compatible". (Imagine how long Macintosh or Linux would last if they released a new version that required everyone to update their routers).
I haven't yet seen a really good solution for the problem - the autotuninglevel stuff sounds more like a speed issue than fixing a total absence of incoming data.
It might help if other users of this forum could also respond to these questions:
- Are you running on Microsoft Vista (and if so, which version - home, business etc.)?
- Are you using MUSHclient?
- Does it work?
- Did you have to change anything to make it work (eg. tweak configurations, install something), and if so, what?
Thanks for any information anyone can provide. |
- Nick Gammon
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