newbie: help re peer-to-peer webcam streaming

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Hi.

Our family wants to stay in touch over broadband through peer-to-peer
streaming webchat. We hope to have the 4 or five of us in our own,
independent web chat.

Our slowest machine is a 500 MHz Celeron, will that handle the work?

Please point me to shareware, pointers, chats; anything where I can
find out more on this.

Regards,

Michael McGovern
scrivner_9@yahoo.com

 

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"Michael McGovern" <scrivner_99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| Hi.
|
| Our family wants to stay in touch over broadband through peer-to-peer
| streaming webchat. We hope to have the 4 or five of us in our own,
| independent web chat.
|
| Our slowest machine is a 500 MHz Celeron, will that handle the work?
|
| Please point me to shareware, pointers, chats; anything where I can
| find out more on this.
|
| Regards,
|
| Michael McGovern
| scrivner_9@yahoo.com

Michael,

One of the programs that will do that is Microsoft Portrait (it's free!)

More info @ http://research.microsoft.com/~jiangli/portrait/

All you need to do is enter the IP of the other person.

Noël

--
http://webcam.kijk.info
http://www.resize2mail.com

 

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What if they are behind a NAT router/firewall and such?

"Noël®" <n03l@REMOVEhotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Michael McGovern" <scrivner_99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:b99438a6.0405091602.6b12f81f@posting.google.com...
> | Hi.
> |
> | Our family wants to stay in touch over broadband through peer-to-peer
> | streaming webchat. We hope to have the 4 or five of us in our own,
> | independent web chat.
> |
> | Our slowest machine is a 500 MHz Celeron, will that handle the work?
> |
> | Please point me to shareware, pointers, chats; anything where I can
> | find out more on this.
> |
> | Regards,
> |
> | Michael McGovern
> | scrivner_9@yahoo.com
>
> Michael,
>
> One of the programs that will do that is Microsoft Portrait (it's free!)
>
> More info @ http://research.microsoft.com/~jiangli/portrait/
>
> All you need to do is enter the IP of the other person.
>
> Noël
>
> --
> http://webcam.kijk.info
> http://www.resize2mail.com
>
>