I would be careful about selecting a DSL provider. I have DSL through USWest
and it works great, fast and reliable. However, unlike the cable modem, my
DSL works through a Cisco 675 router, which has a built in firewall. The OS
for the Cisco router that came with my DSL doesnt support wildcard NAT
entrys (NAT is a table that translates incoming requests on a specific port
to a specific port on the internal network)
Netmeeting allocates ports dynamically for video and audio, so i have no
idea prior to establishing a meeting which ports are going to be used for
recieving video and audio. Because of this I cant receive video and audio.
Outgoing video and audio seems to work.
There is nothing inherrent to DSL that precludes using Netmeeting, but in my
case the router i have to use with my DSL service is causing problems.
Brian Stearns
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Yancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 3:22 AM
Subject: Re: [NetMeeting] cable connection
>
>Hi all
>
>I've had a cable modem for the last year and use NetMeeting 3 or 4 times a
week
>with some other distributed software engineers. Performance (on most days)
is
>quite good. The shared whiteboard is a God-send for us!
>
>Overall however, I am luke warm when it comes to my $39.95/month cable
>connection. When its' humming it's sweet, but as some of the other posters
>pointed out, reliability is sometimes an issue. In addition to just
sporadic
>severe network degradation, there are other times when the connection is
>completely down from a few minutes to hours. I'd say I lose about 1 day a
month
>on average to these sorts of problems. They always occur at the worst
possible
>times too like right before an important teleconference.
>
>Although more reliable, I wouldn't go back to dialup after being spoiled
with all
>this bandwidth. I am however considering the DSL technologies as I have
heard
>they are supposed to be more reliable and also offer high speed access.
>
>good luck
>Kevin
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> does anyone have any opinions on cable connection? i heard if you are
>> connected through your t.v cable company, this will also give you a
clearer
>> picture and voice clarity for net meeting, as well as having a faster
>> connection then through the phone lines, and its cheeper then having a
second
>> phone line and your aol cost is $9.00 cheaper a month!
>>
>>
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