From: "Gary Britt" 

I'm surprised you were able to get it to work that well Glenn.

Gary

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> Recently Scott in our NY office and I tried a Net Meeting session between
> our two laptops, using a LinkSys USB2 camera.  We are connected via a
> private T-1 between the offices, with a Cisco 1720 router on each end, so
we
> can use private IP addresses, and connect direct machine to machine.  Our
> results were no better than using a pubic reflection server.  Audio was
> poor, video was jerky, audio was at many times out of sync.  This is with
> the built-in Net Meeting provided in XP-Pro.  There is no way I'd try or
> even suggest using that for a major meeting in a conference room.
>
> We configured both sides to be on a local corporate lan, but the speeds
> showing on the network usage were tiny.  There was no way we could figure
> out to make it anything other than the same as an ICQ Video Chat setup.
>
> --
>
> Glenn M.
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:433b1f19$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Well I think you understand how well it works.  Not at all.  It comes
from
> > a
> > design that was based upon wide open, no NAT, direct modem connections,
> > and
> > it was never fixed because MS wanted everyone to use MSN Chat instead.
> > You
> > can get some things to work like remote desktop viewing and if you're
> > lucky
> > video and audio from one place to the other, but not video and audio in
> > the
> > other direction simultaneously.  You can get text chat to work and maybe
> > some of the whiteboard stuff and file sending.  Its simultaneous
> > video/audio
> > from two or more sources that won't work ever unless you are wide open
to
> > the net on both ends.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > "Richard B."  wrote in message
> > news:lm2mj1tui247e3musjks1f5li6bd4jvqs7{at}4ax.com...
> >> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:10:11 -0400, "Gary Britt"
> >>  wrote:
> >>
> >> >Netmeeting is near impossible to make work properly
through routers at
> > each
> >> >end, unless you turn on uPnP in the router and let XP at both ends
> > control
> >> >what ports are open
> >>
> >> Most everything goes through a router at some point, how does it work
> >> at all? 
> >>
> >> Sounds like my firewall would block it several time over.
> >>
> >> - Richard
> >
> >
>
>

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