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Gullanian 
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Posted: 25 September 2004 at 2:51pm |
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I'm at Uni, and I talk to my beautiful girl on the phone, but it's
becoming a tad expensive so we both went out and bought michs.
They work fine, but I can't (over MSN) seem to connect to anyone with
the mich, but I can fine with the webcam. I get the error:
The network or computer you are trying to reach is experiencing a problem. Please try again later.
I can connect to people on the Uni network fine though. Don't
know much about networks, but I'm guessing it's possible to block
voices over the network.
Is there any other software or setup or something I can do so I can talk to her!!!!
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Posted: 25 September 2004 at 3:02pm |
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Well, one way is to setup your computer as a Teamspeak server
(www.teamspeak.org) and chat through that. I use it for gaming and to
talk to friends. If both of you are on broadband then it will work
great although it does ok on dialup as well. Connecting to your
computer means she'll have to know your IP (which is easily checked) or
you can setup an account at www.dyndns.org and use an updating client
such as the one at kana.webhop.net which I have used for over a year
behind my Linksys router. The only downside is that the conversations
are half-duplex which means you can't both speak at the exact same time
(think of a walkie-talkie). Of course it is free.
Another way is to check out Skype (www.skype.com). I've not used it
since the early release but it works well and only requires you to both
install the client.
One last suggestion would be something like Vonage.com although I'm not sure if VoiP is available in the UK yet.
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MadDog
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Posted: 25 September 2004 at 9:49pm |
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I recommend Skype. I used to use it all the time, sounds as if you are on the phone and i never had any problems with it.
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Posted: 26 September 2004 at 8:36am |
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Skype is good. However teamspeak is a tad unstable. I would use ventrilo (www.ventrilo.com) over teamspeak.
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Posted: 26 September 2004 at 9:32am |
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However teamspeak is a tad unstable. I would use ventrilo (www.ventrilo.com) over teamspeak. |
That's funny. I've had a TS server running on a little old 128MB
machine that also acts as my IIS test server. For well over a year it
is yet to fail and I've had over 20 people logged in before.
One of the downsides to Ventrilo is the 8-person limitation unless you wanna pay for hosting.
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Posted: 26 September 2004 at 8:16pm |
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TS doesn't work, can't connect to the server. Are there any web Java clients on websites i can use?
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Posted: 27 September 2004 at 9:02am |
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Gullanian: It may well be that your Uni network is blocking every port apart from the usual ones, the services described above all use different ports to establish connections, and if your Uni is blocking them all then you will not be able to do much, I recommend either using a port scanner to scan for opened ports internally (not over the Internet) or ask a network administrator what's blocked and whats not.
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Posted: 27 September 2004 at 10:55am |
thescientist wrote:
I recommend either using a port scanner to scan for opened ports internally |
And I recommend using a lot of caution when scanning ports. If your
school admins are even half-ass decent they'll really frown on port
scanning. You may find yourself in hot water for that one. Better to
ask them.
gullanian wrote:
TS doesn't work, can't connect to the server. Are there any web Java clients on websites i can use? |
There aren't any java clients that I'm aware of; however, you could
setup your own TS server and have it run on common ports like 21 or
even 80 if you want unless you plan on running a webserver or ftp
server.
Of course they may be blocking external requests for those ports so its hard to say.....
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