I do it all the time but not with Netgear routers yet. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Rising Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:55 PM To: Macintosh MacUser Group Subject: [MacGroup] ichat vs. routers
Hey folks, I'm having one hell of a time trying to get iChat to work. Tonight I tried chatting with my wife via AIM, and found that while the invite for the chat works, the chat fails after appx. 20 seconds with a communications error (-8). When looking around on the internet, I've found a few solutions, all of which, well, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@#$: Use port forwarding to open a bunch of ports to allow iChat to work [1], and forward the traffic to a particular computer. This seems to be a rather unacceptable solution, because it limits the chatters to 1 per router. Use port triggering to avoid the 1 per router problem above. The problem is that my Netgear wgr614v6 router doesn't allow one outgoing port to turn on multiple incoming ports, unless the ports are in a range. Use UPnP, the Microsoft standard which doesn't seem to work with said Netgear routers. Some people have gone as far as to suggest that Netgear routers generally are (*(*&#*), and should be dumped, and that the proper solution is to waste money on new routers. Has anyone had any luck using video chats over AIM through iChat between two computers which sit behind routers? How about behind Netgear routers? Bill getting really tired of fighting with 'simple' applications [1] http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/page3.html _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be January 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
