Question for Jonathan Kay

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Jonathan:

I visited your site, Messenger Resources and have a question regarding
the opening of ports.

The area named "Solve A Messenger Problem step 6" you show the ip
address of 127.0.0.1

Is this the ip address of messenger or do we use the ip address of our
computer? I am using a DLink DI-604 4 port router.

I am having weird problems. One of my cousins has the same router as me
and we rarely have problems doing a Video Conference. however, i have
another cousin that has DSL but no router and the only way i can do a
video conference with him is to disconnect my router and plug the DSL
modem directly to my PC.

Appreciate any help

Joe

 

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Greetings Joe,

That is for the built-in firewall and has nothing to do with routers; do not forward these
ports on your router.

You might want to check that you're using the latest firmware for the DI-604 and that UPnP is
engaged (I'm not quite sure if the DI-604 has an UPnP toggle or not):
http://support.dlink.com
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"Joe Robertson" <sales@porcupinepc.com> wrote in message
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> Jonathan:
>
> I visited your site, Messenger Resources and have a question regarding the opening of
> ports.
>
> The area named "Solve A Messenger Problem step 6" you show the ip address of 127.0.0.1
>
> Is this the ip address of messenger or do we use the ip address of our computer? I am using
> a DLink DI-604 4 port router.
>
> I am having weird problems. One of my cousins has the same router as me and we rarely have
> problems doing a Video Conference. however, i have another cousin that has DSL but no
> router and the only way i can do a video conference with him is to disconnect my router and
> plug the DSL modem directly to my PC.
>
> Appreciate any help
>
> Joe