MSN Messenger 7.5 UPNP and Netgear DG834

[geezerone]

Hi

I am having problems with the above which is most noticeable in that there is tremendous lag with webcam or file sharing is slooow.... The router has UPNP enabled but although I have installed UPNP for XP (i believe) it still is not fixed. Any ideas?

Thanks

[Lee H]

I think this is an issue with 7.5 as I too have slow transfers, as does Platinum and I too have a uPnP router of a different model (D-link) and Platinum has a totally different setup to mine.

Less than 1Kb a sec - it took ages to recieve a 4 Mb file from him

[Stoo]

Have you tried killing UPNP and setting it up manually?

[geezerone]

The thing is, this was working before 7.5 update AFTER installing UPNP in windows (which didn't seem to do much and had done this several times). I also needed to drop trusted internet protection to medium in my software firewall. I did turn UPNP off in the router and same thing experienced although port forwarding wasn't configured as didn't know exactly how to do this and was getting late.

[nev_payne]

Thats very odd...I use that very router with 7.5 and haven't experienced much of a problem...file transfer slows down after a while, but downloading and webcam remain at full bandwidth...perhaps a hard reset and double check your ISP settings?

[geezerone]

I have reverted to MSN 7.0 and will see how it goes.

Do you use a software firewall and if so which one? Cheers.

[nev_payne]

This is what I din't understand - firewalls would kill off a connection all together instead of crippling it and watching it crawl. Maybe you should look outside of the box(es) - your phone line setup and interferance? These can cause speed issues.

[geezerone]

MSN was saying that i was connected through unknown NAT before I changed the software firewall 'trusted' zone to medium and installed UPnP in Windows before the lag disappeared. This was with MSN 7.0. I understand what you are saying about firewalls but this was the only way for my local LAN to see the router via UPnP.

I will try again tonight if possible.

[nev_payne]

Sure - contact me through MSN if you have any worries and I'll run you through with my router at the same time.