Audio and video not working

From: Bill Holt (bill_at_itsound.demon.co.uk)
Date: 02/28/04


Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:25:11 +0000

I have a Netgear router which says on the box that it supports Messenger
and it has UPnP.
I can send audio and video backwards and forwards between PC's on my
network on this side of the router using Windows Messenger 4.7.2009.
When I dial out from a separate machine via a separate ISP, I cannot
connect to anything on my side of the router, although the text chat
works.

Since upgrading the router to the latest firmware, the UPnP Portmap
table no longer appears on the router Setup screens. 2 entries used to
appear. Still doesn't work with the latest firmware.

Can anyone help by suggesting where I should be looking at ports to
enable etc. I've looked through all the documentation that I can find,
but not achieved anything. Enabling inbound TCP/UDP on Ports 6891 to
6901 doesn't seem to make any difference.

-- 
Bill Holt


Relevant Pages

  • Re: UPNP/SSDP
    ... > Re: UPnP ... > all ports. ... a firewall and a NAT-based UPnP-compliant router are distinctly different ... the NAT router is a packet filter that routes packets b/w the LAN ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Messenger SP2 Voice Chat
    ... > You do not need to configure any ports. ... > your router firmware and enable UPnP. ... > You will notice to things after you have enabled UPnP ... > Nat information found in Advanced Connection ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger)
  • Re: UPNP with Linksys Router
    ... I would suggest you simply check the ports that need to be open on the ... How can I verify if UPNP worked? ... > Do you have DHCP diabled on the router? ... > to automatically configure my access to the internet is stopped. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: port forwarding ?
    ... and what do I have to configure, if my Router does support UPnP? ... > Actually just opening the ports for audio/video (assuming that's what ... In order to use audio/video conversations ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger)
  • Re: IP
    ... What error message do you get from Messenger??? ... What ports did you forward??? ... > router (Internet Service Provider would do this) whereas you appear? ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)