Re: Tiger/iChat
Finally...Have successfully chatted video and audio with parents...
Not sure whether it's best to tell you what I have or have not tried !!
Their setup, PC P4 chip...3months old all the bells and whistles.
Have just sent them up a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000...about the best spec I could find !
After trying for days AIM, was a complete waste of time, even with opening all the ports...removing all the Firewalls and doing everything that everyone else in the whole wide world has tried !!!!
Had parents remove AIM off their PC. And then downloaded
Trillian, don't ask me how I got to Trillian...must have Googled for hours !!
Cost's $25, but at this stage I was prepared to go and buy a MacMini (upgrade it's RAM, an iSight Camera) and then have a 7 hour round trip drive to install it !!!!
Because if I added up the time trying to sort it out it would probably have been cheaper !
Anyway, reset the Firewall's all back on. Loaded up Trillian on Parents PC, fired up iChatAV on my Mac...and low and behold we have lift off !!!
Right, so hows it done !
Well, fortunately both my Parents Router/Modem and mine are both uPnP (this is a little bit of magic...if you have no idea about networks, Firewalls and the like then make sure you have software and hardware that 'is' uPnP enabled !)
Even if you 'know' what you are doing uPnP makes life a lot easier !
Anyway, in simple terms if your Software and Hardware is uPnP aware then, everything is plug and play, just like iChat on your Mac.
No messing with the Firewall's, uPnP devices opn the necessary ports when needed.
Picture from Parents is not great but is certainly acceptable...Sisters iSight is arriving in the next few days, so that should be a 'nice' install !
Anyone need any help iChatting to a PC, let me know and I'm sure between Cory and myself we'll get you going.
