Router and voice chat?

[Methos_H]

I have a Linksys BEFW11s4 router on a dsl line with 1 wired pc 1 wireless pc and a PS2 everything works great except voice chat in MSN messenger and voice chat on SOCOM on PS2, they do work if i go direct to the modem. So what setting do i need to change in the router to get them working?

[BipolarBill]

You need to find out which ports MSN uses for voice and then allow port forwarding in the Linksys setup to the application (MSMSGS.EXE or MSNMSGR.EXE).

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=msn+messenger+linksys

[omendata]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q278887

[BipolarBill]

Very helpful on MS's part there. They say you must "install Proxy server", but they don't say how. The rest ("create a Winsock protocol definition for TCP ports, and then install the Winsock proxy client on the computers that use the proxy server.") is gobbledegook to the average Windows user. It's Linux-speak. :p

Best to just switch to Yahoo IM or ICQ.

[omendata]

I posted it for the port numbers mentioned in the article although I have a funny feeling there are more than that - I may be wrong.