netmeeting not working fully?

[crazychicken]

ok, so here is the deal:

we have both removed ourselves from our routers.
we connect fine through netmeeting
i can see both myself and my friend
he can see only himself

so that means both of our cameras are doing fine, our connection is fine, but then what the heck cant he see me for??

we're very confused

if you have any ideas let me know

thanks
david

 

[dc5]

do you have a software firewall installed? is the 'receive video option' enabled on your friend's computer?

 

[crazychicken]

no software firewall on either computer.
receive video is enabled on both

i have tried this with 2 friends, and it is the exact same problem, so i feel like it is something on my end, but this is freshly formatted so i know there is no software firewall (and the windows one is off) and i have been trying it w/o my router.

what else could it be??

 

[Fencer128]

Hi,

Just a thought - maybe if your ISP is only allowing the port transmitting the video information to work as incoming or outgoing (not both)? I guess you could use telnet to check the ports from either client. It's probably not this but you never know.

Good luck,

Andy

 

[crazychicken]

i am not very familiar with telnet. what commands would i use?

just telnet IP? or how do i know which ports the video is using? i thought it was several??

 

[Fencer128]

You open a command prompt (cmd) and then type "telnet <ip address or hostname> <port number>"

There may be better ways but I thought this quick and easy. If the response times out then the router/firewall is dropping the packets or the computer is off.

If you google netmeeting ports that should tell you what ports are being used.

Sorry I can't be of more help,

Andy