Changing ports

Hello,

I've got a router
and basically I want
to use msn messenger
in both my PCs at
the same time. I
forwarded the
default ports in my
router to PC1 but I
cant use msn on PC2.


My question is, can
I change the default
ports in the SECOND
PC's messenger's
options/settings to
something else and
then forward those
newly changed ports
to the second PC? a
lot of programs will
let you set the port
in their program to
what you want but as
far as I can see it
is impossible to
change msn's ports
or at least I'm
missing it.

Would appreciate any
help!

Greetings,

Messenger should work on both. Even without ports forwarded, nearly all of Messenger's
functionality should work (albeit with some degraded performance due to having to use relay
servers).

But, if your router supports Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), Messenger on -either- computer
can automatically open and forward the necessary ports it needs with no configuration on your
end and no degraded performance.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
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"Sylv" <> wrote in message news:%...
> Hello,
>
> I've got a router
> and basically I want
> to use msn messenger
> in both my PCs at
> the same time. I
> forwarded the
> default ports in my
> router to PC1 but I
> cant use msn on PC2.
>
>
> My question is, can
> I change the default
> ports in the SECOND
> PC's messenger's
> options/settings to
> something else and
> then forward those
> newly changed ports
> to the second PC? a
> lot of programs will
> let you set the port
> in their program to
> what you want but as
> far as I can see it
> is impossible to
> change msn's ports
> or at least I'm
> missing it.
>
> Would appreciate any
> help!

Hello and thank you for replying,

I went into my router's configuration and enabled UPnP and chose my connection as
seeing in the pic below, clicked Apply and then saved all settings to take effect.
I then went to the other PC to try and log in to messenger but it was the same
thing - the two little green and blue icons kept spinning and spinning endlessly
trying to log in with no luck. I get no errors whatsoever, it just keeps login it
until I myself finally stop it. at the moment I am connected to messenger on THIS
pc and am trying to use messenger on the SECOND pc at the same time. unfortunately
messenger isnt amongst the apps which allow you to change ports. is there any
other way to use messenger on both PCs?

Here is the screenshot:
http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/6428/upnp3xx.jpg

===
Greetings,

Messenger should work on both. Even without ports forwarded, nearly all of
Messenger's
functionality should work (albeit with some degraded performance due to having to
use relay
servers).

But, if your router supports Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), Messenger on -either-
computer
can automatically open and forward the necessary ports it needs with no
configuration on your
end and no degraded performance.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

Sylv ha scritto:

> Here is the screenshot:
> http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/6428/upnp3xx.jpg

Did u delete the rules you created before turning on UPnP?

Max

Hello again,

I think I have found the problem. the other PC uses a co.il hotmail address to
sign in to messenger and as you know I could never log in. I just tried a
hotmail.COM e-mail and it worked! so the hotmail ending was the problem for some
reason. I will just have to use a COM e-mail address and both PCs can use
messenger at the same time :-)
Thanks for the help!

=======
Greetings,

Messenger should work on both. Even without ports forwarded, nearly all of
Messenger's
functionality should work (albeit with some degraded performance due to having to
use relay
servers).

But, if your router supports Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), Messenger on -either-
computer
can automatically open and forward the necessary ports it needs with no
configuration on your
end and no degraded performance.

Yes I did delete the rules in port forwarding.
The problem though was the ending of the hotmail address. for soe reason if its
..co.il it doesnt log - if I use a .com one it logs in just fine.

=======
Did u delete the rules you created before turning on UPnP?

Max

Hi,

Which error code was being generated when you tried to sign in with the .co.il?

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
--

"Sylv" <> wrote in message news:eZ%...
> Hello again,
>
> I think I have found the problem. the other PC uses a co.il hotmail address to
> sign in to messenger and as you know I could never log in. I just tried a
> hotmail.COM e-mail and it worked! so the hotmail ending was the problem for some
> reason. I will just have to use a COM e-mail address and both PCs can use
> messenger at the same time :-)
> Thanks for the help!
>
> =======
> Greetings,
>
> Messenger should work on both. Even without ports forwarded, nearly all of
> Messenger's
> functionality should work (albeit with some degraded performance due to having to
> use relay
> servers).
>
> But, if your router supports Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), Messenger on -either-
> computer
> can automatically open and forward the necessary ports it needs with no
> configuration on your
> end and no degraded performance.

There was no error given at all with .co.il, when I cliked the button to sign in,
the little green and blue people started to speed as if they were thinking and it
kept spinning endlessly. no errors, no popups. it could be just a bug in the new
live messenger, I havent tried it on a 7.5 version

===
Hi,

Which error code was being generated when you tried to sign in with the .co.il?

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights