I'm having a lot of problems attempting to use voice with MSN Messenger
7.5 (Windows XP SP2).
I can't even have a voice chat with another computer here in my own
house (both on the LAN side of a Linksys router). I also have problems
trying a conversation over the internet (through the router). As far as
I can find out, the router (a Linksys BEFSR81) is not blocking anything.
I've also tried turning off the SP2 Windows firewall, that had no
impact. There is no other firewall type software or hardware running.
The other computer here is a laptop running via a wireless access point
connected to a port of the router. The wireless card is a D-Link
DWL-630, the access point is a Linksys WAP54G.
With the local computer, either computer can send the request to start a
voice chat, the other computer sees it and accepts, but the acceptance
is never seen by the sending computer. At some point, after a delay,
the voice session is terminated on the computer that accepts it and you
get a message stating that there was a network problem. Voice never
actually works in either direction.
With a remote computer over the internet, it actually goes better ...
the session starts seemingly normally as seen by both computers, but
voice works in one direction only. However, after a relatively short
period of time (2-4 minutes) the session terminates with the same
message about a network problem.
Anyone have any ideas? MSN Messenger 7.5, Windows XP SP2 and everything
is fully updated.