While this is off-topic somewhat, I have been plagued by this problem as well.
To establish a netmeeting through your firewall requires you to forward numerous ports. While this all makes sense, I have never in my lifetime been able to get netmeeting to work through various Linksys routers. If you do succeed, let me know. Here's a good start... See Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 158623 for specifics on port forwarding. See also SMC Knowledge base article 1763 and 1677 and Linksys KB10934167. The industry realized that having consumers setup port forwarding was not very realistic, so they came up with Universal Plug-n-Play Networking protocols. The Linksys Routers have this feature, and you can learn how to set it up by reading the Linksys Knowledge Base Article KB10934389 or SMC Knowledge Base Article 2681. If anyone has good information on what UPnP actually does and if it actually works with Netmeeting/MSN Messenger... I'd like to hear about it. To keep this message on topic, I will say that I use Surveyor's Webcam32 on my wireless laptop when I want to establish a video-call. I use POTS for the audio and one-way webcam for the video. Works great for those holiday family get-togethers. - Paul > to establish a video conferencing session thru my wireless network, I have > tried Netmeeting and other video conferencing software but can not pass by > my SMC 7004AWBR access point fire wall to my cable modem and to Internet. Is > there any solution? Is this SMC limitation ? can I do it by using an access > point from a different manufacturer. Your help and advise will be greatly > appreciated. > > M. Farzin > > Thanks
