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Didn't anyone else notice no voice channel for 5 days?
As a new user of MSN Messenger, I couldn't figure out why a friend and
me could not connect voice (video OK). "Connecting with Donald" was the message, but it didn't connect after a minute, and gave me the message "Donald terminated voice contact" (something like that anyway). We tried Fri, Sat, Sun, and maybe Mon & Tues. I posted this info a little while ago. One other guy answered saying he had the same problem. A couple of other answers, but nothing about the voice channel itself Well, my friend and I tried it one last time today (Fri feb 13). *** We connected voice quite quickly. Can you believe it? The voice server, or channel, must have been messed up. What other answer is there? But why-oh-why didn't anyone else notice?? No voice channel. For maybe 5 days. I see no other posts about it. |
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Didn't anyone else notice no voice channel for 5 days?
Greetings,
There is no "voice server", voice communications are peer-to-peer and as such, the "invitations" for voice conversations operate the same as text-messaging, and then you just directly connect to your contact. There is no further infrastructure. Also, just so you know, I've been having voice conversations everyday, this week and the last, there's no magic server that went down, it's all peer-to-peer. There is no server, and there is no "channel". The facts are, if you can't connect to your contact and they can't connect to you, then it doesn't work. Firewalls, routers, etc. being the usual suspect. More than likely either your contact or yourself somehow fixed whatever problem you were experiencing, which is why it now works. ____________________________________________ Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com "Big Mac" wrote in message ... As a new user of MSN Messenger, I couldn't figure out why a friend and me could not connect voice (video OK). "Connecting with Donald" was the message, but it didn't connect after a minute, and gave me the message "Donald terminated voice contact" (something like that anyway). We tried Fri, Sat, Sun, and maybe Mon & Tues. I posted this info a little while ago. One other guy answered saying he had the same problem. A couple of other answers, but nothing about the voice channel itself Well, my friend and I tried it one last time today (Fri feb 13). *** We connected voice quite quickly. Can you believe it? The voice server, or channel, must have been messed up. What other answer is there? But why-oh-why didn't anyone else notice?? No voice channel. For maybe 5 days. I see no other posts about it. |
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Didn't anyone else notice no voice channel for 5 days?
I didn't notice either.
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Didn't anyone else notice no voice channel for 5 days?
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:38:35 -0500, "Jonathan Kay [MVP]"
wrote: Greetings, There is no "voice server", voice communications are peer-to-peer and as such, the "invitations" for voice conversations operate the same as text-messaging, and then you just directly connect to your contact. There is no further infrastructure. Also, just so you know, I've been having voice conversations everyday, this week and the last, there's no magic server that went down, it's all peer-to-peer. There is no server, and there is no "channel". The facts are, if you can't connect to your contact and they can't connect to you, then it doesn't work. Firewalls, routers, etc. being the usual suspect. More than likely either your contact or yourself somehow fixed whatever problem you were experiencing, which is why it now works. ____________________________________________ Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger Associate Expert Very odd then. The only difference between us is that he uses Zone Alarm, and I use the XP firewall. We both use Norton Anti-virus all updated (me 2004, he 2003). before it tried for a minute I guess before it aborted, then Friday when we tried it one last time before giving up the voice channel connected in like 2 seconds. Nothing was in any setting was changed by either of us. Perhaps the only thing that had been changed was an update from Symantec (anti-virus). I'll never know. But we've tried it several times now and it works just great. If there is no sever between us, then if I send/receive a file between us, that means it isn't stored anywhere in between then? I have to ask, because I thought a server worked between us, thus my assumptions mentioned - this is what happened with Yahoo Messenger one time: we tried a file transfer and he didn't get what I sent him, but he did get a message saying to go site address and get the file. Which he was able to do. Now you know why I assumed there was something in between me and him using any Messenger program. |
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