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Ok… well after I just set here and typed that really long post.. I done some reasearch and looked over all of the previous posts…
Don’t ask my why I decided to try this, but I did…. and since I did.. I’ve disconnected and re-connected my cam several times… I’ll connect it.. and then dis-connect… let it set for 5 or 10 minutes and try it again. (Normally after the first dis-connect, it’s gone again for several days)
Since I’m on comcast I went in to the set up site for the server… where you can open up your port configurations and add computers to ur DMZ list…
Once there, My ORIGINAL settings were as follows:
Application Name: Yahoo
Port Range: 5100 to 5100
Protocol: TCP
IP Address: 192.168.0.10
Enable: YesAfter looking through several sites and trying a million different things, I got the idea to just throw out some numbers, starting with less, and ending with more, then my original port range had listed…
So I changed the 5100 to 5100 to 5000 to 5200 …
I applied the changes, opened up my Yahoo Messenger, Started my cam and it hasn’t stopped working yet… (crossing fingers and praying I don’t have to make another post saying that it’s not working);)
So if any of you guys read this, I really hope it works…. Maybe changing the ports to those ranges opened up just enough to allow what u need to go through… Let me know if it helps anyone else
Misty
I’m not sure If what I have to say may help you in your situation, but I’ve been through a similar one myself. When we first got hooked up to cable, my computer was running off of a wireless connection, and My computer was getting locked up everytime I tried to run Limewire and some websites that had a lot of content on them… Come to find out, there was something in my area that was blocking my signal, then we switched to the wireless USB adapter instead of the network card, and it wasd doing the same thing… the only way to solve the problem was to run a long ethernet cable from my computer to the main modem box…. but even before that our main computer was having a lot of problems staying connected, or connecting right, to begin with…I kept calling the service techs about the problem, and the only thing they could figure was that my modems were getting “burnt” out…literally, so after replacing our modem 4 times now, and running strictly on ethernet cables, the problem seems to be fixed. Depeding on who you go through, maybe you could have them send a tech to check out your modem… it seems as though they go bad fairly easy, yet no one seems to know why… we went through 4 in about a 1 month period :confused: Hope that maybe this can help.. it’s all a bunch of trial and error…enough to make dial up look good :p
Tropical wrote:Hi.. I have a little problem. I recently purchased a wireless router (with a USB wireless adapter for my PC) and I’ve been having some problems.. It’s usually fine when I’m just chatting on AIM.. but when I open up Limewire which I download songs from it usually disconnects me from the internet.. Same when I visit websites sometimes.. and then I have to unplug my USB adapter and plug it back in and it works. Can someone help me with this?I am connected to the internet through an ethernet cable thats connect to a Linksys Wireless G-Cable Gateway (model #WCG200-CC)
Since we connected through Comcast Cable for our “high speed internet” i’ve only been able to get my cam to connect 2 times, and my friends camera twice. I continously recieve the “Network error” message, so I contacted Yahoo! about the problem…
As usual, they just couldn’t seem to figure out what the problem was. They told me to go through all the basics… turning off my windows firewall, testing it on the Yahoo! Web cam help site, blah blah blah… It’s still not working…
So I contacted Comcast, and of course (never would of guessed this one) they had no clue what was causing! They say that they don’t have any firewalls or anything built in. The last tech I talked to said that apparently there was something inside of my cable modem that was blocking the port, and he walked me through a manual step-by-step process to open up TCP port 5100 for the web cam service… all of my Windows XP firewalls were turned off… all of my anti-virus protectors were off… EVERYTHING was off… and still, no good.
Apparently I’m not the only one complaining, so are hundreds of other people… But he said that Comcast wasn’t sure what the problem was, which means they don’t know the first thing about fixing it… or at least this guy didn’t.
He told me to try using MSN or AOL…But with MSN, if someone on your buddy list is not online, you can’t even see if it will connect… I only have 4 people on my friends list there because I never use it, so it’s useless to see if it works… and with AOL, unless the person you are talking to is using the very latest version of AOL or AIM, as well as running Windows XP, you’re out of luck..it won’t let you connect with them.
I’m so frustrated by all of this… and I feel like I’m completely out of options… Do you think that If I went to Wal-mart and bought my own Linksys, I would have the same problem? They say it’s in my router, modem, gateway, whatever you want to call it… so a seperate box might help??
Probably not, after all, I’d still be using their service…
Any suggestions?
Misty
