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Posted by Rick Merrill on March 1, 2005, 5:16 pm
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>> Derrick Fawsitt wrote:
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>>> A friend I particularly want to install Skpe has stopped installing
>>> it until he resolves a particular problem. An article in a UK PC
>>> Magazine dealing with Skype and how to install it, (was it PC
>>> World), said that you can have trouble with Skype and NAT if you
>>> have a router. He has a DLINK D1 614plus and he is afraid installing
>>> Skype might disrupt his business through his DLINK router. He has
>>> asked me to look into this matter for him, can you advise me please.
>>> I am not technical so the question posed above is as he explained it
>>> to me and my understanding of it. He obviously uses a network so no
>>> doubt someone will understand his worry and help me to help him be
>>> reassured.
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>> You must put the Skype between the modem and the router, but that only
>> impacts the data users. If he has a combined modem/router he has to
>> change that by disabling the router function and adding another router.
>> You did not state the router and modem make/type.
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> DLINK D1 614plus
Sorry, you DID state the router type... is the Dlink using
firmware version 3.43 ?
Is he placing the Skpe between router and modem?
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