I had a netgear router running from a cable modem, and was able to do good
quality video chatting with people using messenger. Which version? I don't
know. Was it MSN messenger, Windows messenger, Windows Live messenger? I
don't know and I don't even know if it makes a difference.
I know that I've been able to do video chats using version 8.1 of something,
which I think I was forced to change to from version 7.5 of something, which
had also worked.
Recently I changed to FIOS. Because of where the fiber comes into the home,
they run a coax right up to their Actiontec MI424 (something like that)
router.
I discover that I can't SUCCESSFULLY initiate or respond to requests for a
video chat with people out on the internet. As soon as I either accept the
call or the remote person accepts my invitation, the call ends.
We did have one strange fairly successful video only, no sound connection
cross country, but neither of us could think of what me might have been
doing that achieved this partial success. That one came with no sliders for
microphone volume, no mute button, and no full screen capability for the
received picture.
I speculate that there's a setting in the FIOS router that is preventing
success. I've got UP&P enabled (had to do that to make my slingbox push
video out. When I look at port forwarding in the router I can see that
about three entries for things like messenger are there. When I look at the
"security log", I see entries that say things like:
First packet in connection is not a SYN packet: TCP
192.168.1.1:2555->192.168.1.2:2706 on br0
Now I have no idea what br0 is, I don't know who is failing to send a SYN
packet, and I suspect the red Outbound Traffic And Blocked -NAT OUT Failed
is at issue.
Any suggestions?
Thank you.