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Netopia 3342 - Eircom

Hi

I'm posting this for a friend whose ichat i'm trying to get up and running. He is working on an imac and has Eircom broadband in the republic of Ireland. The broadband connection works great but the usual old 'user did not respond' message appears when he tries to initiate a video chat.

Having had some experience of this myself I presume the issue is one of port forwarding. I'm finding it hard to open the ports however as when I try to change the router settings, the screen and commands look nothing like what the Netopia technical pages says they should.

Can someone please help?


Many thanks
Adrian.

Imac G4 flat panel, Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Posted on Apr 25, 2006 1:23 AM

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Apr 26, 2006 6:49 AM in response to Adrian Stewart1

Hi Adrian

USB modem dont work very well with mac's as they need drivers, I would recommend getting a ethernet router/modem like a Netgear DG632 1port http://www.dsl-warehouse.co.uk/product.asp?pr=DG632 or a 4port http://www.dsl-warehouse.co.uk/product.asp?pr=DG834 no drivers needed so no headaches when the OS get updated and the USB drivers get broken.

Also come's with UPnP on as default so works with iChat out of the box.

Tony
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Apr 27, 2006 2:24 AM in response to Defcom-UK

Tony

I think your advice is sound. We have got the usb router to work, by messing around with the firewall settings, but the connection is unreliable and frequently blows up. Is it normal for the internet connection to crash when using ichat with a usb modem? The connection seems fine for normal internet surfing.


Adrian.
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