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No Video with Netgear WGR614v6

So... I've read it all in here... My old netgear router died, I had never had any ichat problems with it. I bought a new netgear router, the fancy one with "wireless" no less. (WGR614v6).

So here we go:
- My home setup is three computers so I cant' do port forwarding.
- I have tried Port triggering as shown in several posts here and it's a no go.
- I turned of port triggering and turned on UPnP and that didn't work either.
- I disabled SPI Firwall in the WAN setup menu
- I have all correct ports open on all machines in the sharing pref pane.
- I can connect to all the tests machines that I found in posts here. (appleu3test02 for example)
- I changed my quicktime stream to 1.5M
- I have bandwith set to NONE in ichat preference/video
- I can connect to some people but not to others. It's very strange. This goes for PC or none PC users. All these people I could connect to before.
- My ISP was Comcast which was just bought by Time Warner (Would this be it?)
- Skype works with everyone of course !!!
- I had to set my server port in ichat to 443 at first to even connect but somehow today I put it back to 5190 and it works.
- When I launch an AV chat, I get "Video starting..." and then I get an error type 8

(Date/Time: 2007-01-22 13:50:48.583 -0800
OS Version: 10.4.8 (Build 8L127)
Report Version: 4
iChat Connection Log:
AVChat started with ID 849807650.
0x8ff6d30: State change from AVChatNoState to AVChatStateWaiting.
chezpaul@mac.com6: State change from AVChatNoState to AVChatStateInvited.
0x8ff6d30: State change from AVChatStateWaiting to AVChatStateConnecting.
chezpaul@mac.com6: State change from AVChatStateInvited to AVChatStateConnecting.
chezpaul@mac.com6: State change from AVChatStateConnecting to AVChatStateEnded.
Chat ended with error -8
0x8ff6d30: State change from AVChatStateConnecting to AVChatStateEnded.
Chat ended with error -8)

I'm at a lost and annoyed. Can anyone help ?

Dual 1.4 gig G4, Mac OS X (10.4.8), normal isight.

Posted on Jan 27, 2007 1:13 PM

35 replies

Jan 29, 2007 4:04 PM in response to Paul Schlosser

Did you configure your router like this:

Set your Mac to use DHCP on the ethernet port.
Connect your Mac to a LAN socket on your router with an ethernet cable.
Power up the router, and watch as your mac picks up an IP (like 192.168.1.2)
Open Safari and go to 192.168.1.1
Log in. Netgear usually puts the default admin uname/passwd on the label of the router.
Configure using the handy web interface.
When you save the configuration, the router will restart. It should reconnect in 10 seconds or so.

MBP 2.33GHz intel core 2 duo 3GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM Mac OS 9.0.x RAID 2xLc500(8P2120)

Paul Boutin Author

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Jan 30, 2007 11:03 AM in response to Jan Pieter Melchior

haha.... quit funny you are Jan Pieter...

Paul Boutin Author

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Jan 30, 2007 11:06 AM in response to Paul Schlosser

The router is set to DHCP and my mac is set to manual IP so that I always have the same IP on my mac as it's talking to several other devices.
I can't put my router on static as I have too many devices that can't create an IP.
SPI and UPnP don't seem to make a difference..

I'm giving up at this point as it seems that we've tried it all.

Jan 30, 2007 12:20 PM in response to Paul Boutin

I asked because if you would have configured any other way, you can't get it to work, hehehe.

JP

hansmatt

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Jan 30, 2007 7:29 PM in response to Paul Boutin

I've been having the same issue with this router. Works with one friend but not the other, depending on what type of router they are using (odd I know). I too have been trying (what I think) is everything, but I'll admit this is out of my league. I'll tag along and hope something works. I've frequented Ralphs site often, but had no luck yet. Many thanks go to all of you who put time and energy into fixing other's problems...you are appreciated!

Jan 31, 2007 4:26 AM in response to hansmatt

Hi,

It does seem to be that in some cases that modems at either end do not seem to "Play Nicely"

This is because they sometime do NAT differently (there are about 6 major ways apparently)

See here http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/page15.html#CertainBuddy

12:29 PM Wednesday; January 31, 2007

Paul Boutin Author

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Feb 10, 2007 2:23 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

Well, I fixed my problem.
I went out and bought a Linksys router and am selling this one on ebay.

Fry

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Feb 10, 2007 11:26 PM in response to Paul Boutin

Hi Paul,

Which Linksys model did you buy? I am getting a bit frustrated with my WGR614v6 as well.

Cheers,

- Fry -

iMac G4 1.25GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

rorydale

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Feb 11, 2007 9:27 AM in response to Fry

Yeh I've been having these same problems with this router too, incredibly frustrating. I did however seem to fix it by enabling "respond to Ping on Internet Port."

I did everything you all did, but then finally doing that made it work.

I'm still going to buy an airport though. Stupid Netgear!

Bean Boy

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Feb 24, 2007 6:58 PM in response to Paul Boutin

I've been having all the same problems. And I'm pretty sure I've done everything I could. I changed quicktime to streaming 1 Mbps. I changed the bandwith to 1 Mbps also. I think I need a little help here.

Intel 17" in. 2.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) Netgear router WGR614v6

rorydale

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Feb 24, 2007 7:07 PM in response to Bean Boy

There's nothing else I can really think of to suggest, did you try changing the respond to ping setting? Seemed to fluke it and work for me.

Bean Boy

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Feb 24, 2007 7:45 PM in response to rorydale

dude thanks sooooo much. it worked

rorydale

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Feb 24, 2007 7:54 PM in response to Bean Boy

Excellent!!

Bean Boy

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Feb 24, 2007 8:14 PM in response to rorydale

now it stopped again!!! I did it a few times with my cousin then it stopped. I also tried reapplying the settings and now it won't do it at all. And for a moment it woulden't let me connect to the internet!!!

rorydale

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Feb 24, 2007 8:59 PM in response to Bean Boy

Hmm, not sure what to suggest on that one then. It could just be an isolated coincidence. Mine is still working and I haven't had any problems. My IP is set up in the DMZ though too. Sadly I think that the router is just a piece of sh**. I have four macs wired into mine, and I'm running wirelessly, but I'm having trouble with remote desktopping and all sorts of things. For me it's going to be worth the money to buy an Airport.

I really doubt your connection issues are related to enabling the ping option, unless when you disabled it it re-connected. Like I said though, five or more macs and PCs running on mine with no problems...

Good luck!

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