iChat AV / Belkin router / NAT problems

Hello:

I just replaced my Macsense 1999-vintage router/hub with a brand new
Belkin router/switch. With the Macsense router, I could communicate
with my father using video and audio chat without any problem without
doing any configuration. With the Belkin router (which, like the
Macsense, uses NAT), iChat rarely connects; it will connect once in a
while, but only video, no audio. (Text chat works fine). I've opened
up all the appropriate ports on the router <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93208>,
made certain that UPnP was enabled, and still nothing. I even set up
my Mac as the DMZ client, but that didn't work either.

Of course, it could be some transient network problem. Barring that,
though, it must be a problem with the router. I haven't changed
anything in my setup *except* for the router.

Any thoughts?

- geoff

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In article <gfg-usenet-A08634.18012421072003 DeleteThis @reader1.news.rcn.net>,
"Geoffrey F. Green" <gfg-usenet DeleteThis @stuebegreen.com> wrote:

> made certain that UPnP was enabled, and still nothing. I even set up
> my Mac as the DMZ client, but that didn't work either.


I don't know if this helps much but I found that if UPnP is enabled,
mapping the ports makes it not work. That's how it was with my D-Link
router anyway, and I'm not 100% positive either.

Doug

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