Audio in Messenger 6.1

[EpochClock]

Having seen all the other problems with that people are having with
audio in 6.1 I am not that confident, but here goes:

Environment:

Windows XP Pro SP1
MSN Messenger 6.1
Symantec Personal Firewall 2003

Windows 2000 SP4
MSN Messenger 6.1
Sitecom DC-202 Router/FW (UPnP supported and enabled)
DirectX 9.0a

Description:

Audio only works when the invitation is made from the 2000 machine to
the XP machine. The other way I get the message 'The connection could
not be completed'. The problem seems to occur at the Sitecom UPnP
router (in front of the 2000 machine). When the invitation is sent
from the XP machine to the 2000 machine I can only get it to work if
the 2000 machine is placed unprotected into a 'DMZ'. When I do this I
can see UDP connections coming into Messenger on random high UDP ports
(using TCPView) and everything works. I also see that Messenger
creates some rules for UDP traffic on the router.

Can anyone help here? I don't really want to blanket allow incoming
UDP connections to the router for a range of 5004-65535 (a suggested
non-UPnP NAT workaround by Microsoft), or worse permanently place the
2000 machine in a 'DMZ'. I thought that with a UPnP router on one
machine and the other machine directly connected there were supposed
to be no problems using MSN Messenger AV.

Is there something I am missing here, is this scenario supported? Is
my UPnP router a waste of money? Should I switch to Yahoo Messenger,
which works fine! ?

Thanks in advance for helping a guy try and stay in touch with his Mum
on the other side of the world.

 

[Brian]

I sure hope you at least get a small answer on this, at least that it is
being addressed..I've not heard anything about that either.

 

[Guest]

msn 6.1 has advance feature in ports configuration automatically so you don't have to open 5004-65535 UDP in router . The only thing I think is if you're also using icf in xp which blocks traffic , you need to disable ICF in xp when you're already behind hardware firewall(router).

 

[EricG]

I am having the smae problem. Is IM audio from Xp to 2000 not possibl
without reconfiguring everything?

When I attempt an audio conversation it automatically disconnects and
get the message "The network or computer you are trying to reach i
experiencing a problem. Please try again later."

*Having seen all the other problems with that people are having with
audio in 6.1 I am not that confident, but here goes:

Environment:

Windows XP Pro SP1
MSN Messenger 6.1
Symantec Personal Firewall 2003

Windows 2000 SP4
MSN Messenger 6.1
Sitecom DC-202 Router/FW (UPnP supported and enabled)
DirectX 9.0a

Description:

Audio only works when the invitation is made from the 2000 machin
to
the XP machine. The other way I get the message 'The connectio
could
not be completed'. The problem seems to occur at the Sitecom UPnP
router (in front of the 2000 machine). When the invitation is sent
from the XP machine to the 2000 machine I can only get it to work if
the 2000 machine is placed unprotected into a 'DMZ'. When I do thi
I
can see UDP connections coming into Messenger on random high UD
ports
(using TCPView) and everything works. I also see that Messenger
creates some rules for UDP traffic on the router.

Can anyone help here? I don't really want to blanket allow incoming
UDP connections to the router for a range of 5004-65535 (a suggested
non-UPnP NAT workaround by Microsoft), or worse permanently plac
the
2000 machine in a 'DMZ'. I thought that with a UPnP router on one
machine and the other machine directly connected there were supposed
to be no problems using MSN Messenger AV.

Is there something I am missing here, is this scenario supported? Is
my UPnP router a waste of money? Should I switch to Yahoo Messenger,
which works fine! ?

Thanks in advance for helping a guy try and stay in touch with hi
Mum
on the other side of the world.

Eric

 

[pjee]

Dear Sitecom users

I have a sitecom wl106 and XP home and I have EXACTLY the same
problem. It also should support Upnp and i even see on the 'gateway'
it opens some ports for windows messenger (msn) but both audio and
video do not work.
Strangely enough I even dont get it working if I put the laptop in
DMZ!
Netmeeting does work however.
Hope someone can help.

Best Regards
Piet