Re: Situation NetMeeting-Messenger-Windows XP-Windows 98SE

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From: Brian Sullivan MVP (brians_at_WORMTIREDmeetingbywire.com)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:20:19 -0500

Sam wrote:
> OK, here's the scenario. I have an XP computer and a 98SE computer
> sharing a connection to the Internet via a router. I'm trying to set
> up a NetMeeting session with my daughter who is on a Windows 98
> computer.

What manufacturer/model router (I presume with the latest firmware?)?

>
> When I contact her with the XP computer, we can type to each other on
> Messenger. When I called her using her IP on NetMeeting, NetMeeting
> showed the connection as being made, but no sound or video went
> through. We could not set up audio in Messenger, either. HOWEVER, I
> moved over to the Windows 98SE computer and was able to make both
> Messenger and NetMeeting connections. Both video and audio worked
> correctly, even though I was behind the router.

Generally if you are behind a router you will not be able to receive
incoming NetMeeting calls and outgoing calls will have no incoming
audio/video. Use of the dmz feature of the router will generally allow you
to have incoming audio/video on outgoing calls and incoming call handling
( for calls place to the wan IP of the router).

Messenger audio/video requires UPnP support in the router.

Assuming nothing changed at the other end I can't think of any explanation
for your results (a dmz setup in one computer and not the other would
explain the NetMeeting result but not the Messenger one).

>
> We are both using Messenger 6.1. On the 98 computers, NetMeeting is
> version
> 3.02. On XP, the version that came with XP is version 3.01.
>
> Anyone know why the old computers can "talk" to each other, but the
> XP computer cannot talk to her computer?
>

Nothing in XP itself should make it any different than 98 ( unless there is
a software firewall running on XP causing a problem). 

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