I, too, am having trouble trying to use audio in MSN Messenger 6.1 and hope that somebody here might have some suggestions.

My wife is currently at our home in England, while I am at my father’s house in Canada.

She is using our desktop, which has a broadband DSL connection to the internet. The computer is connected directly to the DSL modem. In place of a router/firewall, it has ZoneAlarm Pro installed on it.

While I am here, I am using my Dad’s laptop which also has a broadband DSL connection to the internet. This is a wireless connection to a Microsoft MN-500 wireless base station, which acts as a router/firewall. There is no software firewall on this machine.

We are both using MSN Messenger 6.1 running on Windows XP Professional.

Messenger is working just fine for chatting via text and for viewing each other’s webcam. But, the audio will not work. I believe I have everything configured properly on each computer, but the continued problems seem to indicate otherwise.

This is where it gets interesting. We can both have complete video/audio conversations with my wife’s mother (who lives here in Canada) just fine, but we can’t make the audio work between us.

I’m quite confused by this.

On the computer in England, I’ve made sure that both my mother-in-law’s IP and mine are listed as “Trusted” in ZoneAlarm, and I have essentially turned the firewall off for the “Trusted” zone.

Any ideas?