HELP with ADSL & Yahoo

[Gustav]

Help Please !
I use Yahoo messanger 8 to chat to my father in Vietnam. I used to do this through my dial-up which was extreamly slow. So i changed to ADSL, and since then i have had endless problems. I have manged to sign in to yahoo but i can not get the webcam to work. It keeps refering to my firewall. The only connection setting accepting my sig-in on Yahoo is "no Proxy with Firewall". My question is How can i sign into yahoo and get my webcam to work. Please help!!

 

[HoodRich]

I dont have a webcam, but I can only assume that its trying to use a port which your router has explicitly blocked.

If my assumption is correct, you need to :
1) Find out which port its trying to use for the webcam
2) Set up Port Forwarding for that port on your router.

If the above is not your problem...try Skype 3.x ... My brother in the US has a webcam and I watch it using Skype....works great without me setting anything up on my firewall.

 

[Gustav]

thanks for the info.

 

[Gustav]

YAHOO with TELKOM ADSL

Ok i have finally managed to sig-in to messanger 8 with a no proxy connection. "Telkom clearly had their own port number wrong" but i stil can not use my webcam. i hav accessed the site showing the modem and various other settings "Greek to me" to see if there is a setting for the webcam but no luck. I have also confg. my win xp firewall to allow webcam as suggested by yahoo, but still no luck. Can anyone help who might have had the same problem.

 

[SL20]

You still need to forward the ports on your routers firewall.

Go to www.portforward.com for instructions.