Is UPnP the only way?

[Fritz]

Hi,





I have a Nexland IBS 800 Turbo router. It's the same as the Symantec
Firewall/VPN Appliance 200.



I know I need UPnP to use video conferencing via MSN or Windows Messenger.



But I hear some people are opening ports 6891-6901 and 1863-1963 to use it.



Does this overcome the fact that the router does not support UPnP?



Is UPnP the only way to use video conferencing over a router?





Thanks,



Jan

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Jan,

Opening ports will not fix this problem, and the ports you mentioned (albeit the ranges are
wrong, but similar enough to scope out the important ones) are for Windows Messenger and MSN
Messenger 5.x and below file transfer.

Yes, UPnP is required, unless you use a third-party solution like these:
http://www.realtunnel.com
or
http://www.easyfp.com/msn-messenger-directtalk
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

 

[Graham Cluer]

Greetings Jan,

Opening ports will not fix this problem, and the ports you mentioned
(albeit the ranges are
wrong, but similar enough to scope out the important ones) are for
Windows Messenger and MSN
Messenger 5.x and below file transfer.

Yes, UPnP is required, unless you use a third-party solution like these:
http://www.realtunnel.com
or
http://www.easyfp.com/msn-messenger-directtalk
____________________________________________

Do these work? Well? Is either better?

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[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi Graham,

They do work -- I haven't done a side-by-side comparison, but the RealTunnel is free (so you
may want to start with that).
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com