Upnp confusion

[Michael Tissington]

OK, I'm confused ....

Both ends are sitting behind NAT routers in different countries and neither
support Upnp (at least one of the routers is too old for this, the other is
a Netopia SDSL router)

So how come I have managed to have a voice and video conversation?

-
Michael Tissington
http://www.oaklodge.com

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Michael,

It's possible that both sides have built-in voice/video support in the router (which really
just translates the IPs necessary and may open/forward the required ports) without UPnP. As
well, is MSN Messenger 6 being used?
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com


"Michael Tissington" > wrote in message
...
> OK, I'm confused ....
>
> Both ends are sitting behind NAT routers in different countries and neither
> support Upnp (at least one of the routers is too old for this, the other is
> a Netopia SDSL router)
>
> So how come I have managed to have a voice and video conversation?
>
> -
> Michael Tissington
> http://www.oaklodge.com
>
>

[Michael Tissington]

MSN Messenger 6 is being used at one end only.

Don't all routers that support NAT do the port forwarding ?

--
Michael Tissington
http://www.oaklodge.com


"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" > wrote in message
...
> Greetings Michael,
>
> It's possible that both sides have built-in voice/video support in the
router (which really
> just translates the IPs necessary and may open/forward the required ports)
without UPnP. As
> well, is MSN Messenger 6 being used?
> ____________________________________________
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>
>
> "Michael Tissington" > wrote in message
> ...
> > OK, I'm confused ....
> >
> > Both ends are sitting behind NAT routers in different countries and
neither
> > support Upnp (at least one of the routers is too old for this, the other
is
> > a Netopia SDSL router)
> >
> > So how come I have managed to have a voice and video conversation?
> >
> > -
> > Michael Tissington
> > http://www.oaklodge.com
> >
> >
>
>