Hi, On Jan 30, 2013, at 09:42, Anna Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> am interested as to why jabber, through pidgin, with both accounts on same > server, worked when we were in the same room but not when we were in > different places. Cisco are offering something jabber shaped as a service > like this, and apparantly that works (i bet they wont tell us how or why > though!). I really wouldn't mind paying a few pounds a month for a service > like this, but not from them. Anyway - it is all over my head, but i guess > all the info helps :) this is usually a case of problems of NAT traversal. Jabber uses STUN [1] servers for that, IIRC. Essentially a Jabber server needs a little more setup to pass through WIFI access points et cetera for video chat. Cheers, Mirko. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN -- Mirko Boehm | [email protected] | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist
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