Universal Plug n Play or UPnP

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Steven L Umbach" <[email protected]>

| And you can often work around such without using UPnP and all the noise it
| creates on the network. --- Steve


Noise ?

Hardly.

 

[Tom S]

Yes, noise. That bugger yaps constantly trying to find every other UPnP
device on it's subnet. We finally turned off logging port 1900 traffic
because you couldn't see anything else!

 

[Guest]

According to the resident MVP in the windowsxp.messenger group, it's almost
(if not completely) impossible to initiate a file transfer using Windows
Messenger from behind a non-uPnP NAT router. Apparently the latest versions
of MSN Messenger are better than Windows Messenger at dealing with this, but
MSN Messenger has its own problems.

Messenger (Windows or MSN) seems to be the best solution for transferring
large files over the Internet, short of setting up your own FTP server. It
doesn't have the file size limitations imposed by many ISPs on email
attachments. I don't do this often, but when I want to, I want it to work.
I guess I'll just enable uPnP when needed and turn it back off when done.