Try Skype, it works great and needs little set up! Wednesday, January 9, 200811:54 PMBill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>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 _______________________________________________ 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
