XP Messenger Voice Conversation

Hi folks

Here's a good one for you all.

I have a home network set up (Wireless) with two PC's both running XP Home Ed. I have set up a shared internet connection (Cable Modem - always on) and all works fine.

My PC is the Gateway, my son's PC in his room uses the shared connection.

I have just obtained two microphones and wish to set up the facility to hold a voice conversation with anyone on MSN. I have managed to converse (as opposed to chat!) with someone from my PC - both inviting and accepting, and also to converse with my son on his PC upstairs - again from sending an invitation or accepting an invitation.

However, I cannot establish a conversation outside my network from my son's PC.

Is there a restriction somewhere? Can this be achieved?

It could save me a lot of money using the cable internet connection instead of my telephone line!!!!

Ta in advance....

John

 

The problem more than likely is a firewall or router between your LAN and the Internet. For example, my home network is using DSL. I have a router that acts as my firewall. Anyone on my network can browse the Internet, but voice conversations, ICQ file transfer and a few other things don't work. This is because of the firewall and network address translation.
There are a few articles in the MS KB that describe how to overcome this problem.

 

Thanks for the reply. I have had a quick searcg opn MS KB and only managed to find articles that state....



If you are on a local area network (LAN) behind a firewall (for example, if you are on a corporate network), you can call another computer to talk to a person who is behind the same firewall that you are, however, you may not be able to connect on a computer-to-computer call with a person that is outside of the firewall.


.... which doesn't really help. Can you point me to the relevant articles please, thanks.

John