From: Adam Flinton 

On windows I use trillian (the std free version) mostly because it does a
number of different networks (e.g. yahoo & msn etc.etc) & I don't
like to be a single net person.


Adam

Gary Britt wrote:
> I checked and Trillian Pro does do video chat.
>
> My wife and I only video chat with each other.  We tried using Netmeeting
> for this purpose, but even with routers at both ends set to DMZ, I couldn't
> get it to work both ways.  I could only get it to work one way only.  So we
> were forced to do one of the instant messengers.  We tried Yahoo but its
> software seemed a bit bloated and possibly buggy.  We both needed to
> reinstall it more than once and the Yahoo servers were often busy and hard
> to connect through.  So now we've tried MSN Messenger.  It seems a bit less
> bloated not as buggy and haven't had as many problems with their servers
> than we did with Yahoo.  However, its still plenty bloated and loaded with a
> bunch of cutsie kid stuff.
>
> MSN Messenger is free, so before I pop for Trillian tell me, if you would,
> why I should.
>
> I know its operable with lots of messenger clients, but that feature isn't
> important to my situation.  Is Trillian less bloated, faster, and better
> able to handle some older hardware than MSN 7.0???  Does Trillian do a
> better job of synching up video and audio, etc. during a video chat
> session??
>
> How is Trillian able to get its client to work with everyone else's client,
> but MSN, AIM, et al can't figure out how to do this?  Or are the instant
> messenger wars been long over and I just missed it?
>
> Thoughts anyone?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
> "Chris"  wrote in message
news:42bc3d03$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>I know it will do audio, but not tried video.  If you do, you *may* need
>>to upgrade to the "pro" version.  Please check their
website for details
>>and factual information as I have never tried it.
>>
>>http://www.trillian.cc/
>>
>>/Chris
>>
>>
>>Gary Britt wrote:
>>
>>>Does Trillian do video and voice conversations over the internet between
>
> two
>
>>>computers?
>>>
>>>Gary
>>>
>>>"Chris"  wrote in message
news:42bb177e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>
>>>
>>>>That's why I use Thunderbird.  It has all the functionality
I need/want
>>>>and none of the MS side-effects, such as msn messenger.  I
like trillian
>>>>MUCH better.
>>>>
>>>>/Chris
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Glenn Meadows wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>OK, thanks.  What's odd, is that it never started till
after yesterday,
>>>
>>>when
>>>
>>>
>>>>>I manually started it to do some testing with a video conference
>>>
>>>thingie.
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Now, the bloody things starts everytime I start OE,
even though I've
>>>
>>>turned
>>>
>>>
>>>>>off the Start Windows Messenger when Windows starts...
>>>>>
>>>>>Why do they make it so hard.....>GRRR<
>>>>>
>>>
>
>

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