Hi, Access Grid uses incoming and outgoing UDP packets. Whether this will work will depend on your ISP configuration. It could be that your ISP blocks all UDP traffic to and from your computer. Alternatively, it could be that you are using Network Address Translation (NAT) on a router to access the internet. In this case you will need to tell your router to forward the UDP packets on the appropriate ports to your computer. Note that the way in which AGTk 2.3 works means that the ports that need to be opened/forwarded might change each time you use Access Grid, even if you use the same venue. This means you might need to reconfigure your router each time you access the room.
Once you have selected "Use Unicast" from the "Preferences" menu, you can find out which ports you need to open/forward by going to "Properties" on the "Venue" menu. If you tell me how your internet access is configured at home, I might be able to give you more information... Andrew :) ============================================ Access Grid Support Centre, RSS Group, Manchester Computing, Kilburn Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK Tel: +44(0)161-275 0685 Email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dioselin Gonzalez Sent: 17 January 2005 01:46 To: ag-tech; AG Users Subject: [AG-TECH] unicas question Hello everybody, We are working on a distance learning project and we would like to use AG. One of the concerns is we want students to be able to attend class from home, where usually we don't have multicast. I've been reading the documentation about bridges and the unicast option in the venue client. I have tried using this option at home and connect to the Argonne bridge, but yet I can't attend meetings from home. What am I missing? Would anybody point me out to what it takes to use unicast ? Another question: from what I've read, using unicast would allow users to start the media tools, but not the shared apps. Is this correct? Thank you! Dio.-
