Guest Host for On The Outside 01-27-04

[posmaster]

Due to a work conflict - thought you'd never hear that given my time slot, eh? - my lovely wife (known in chat as Dex) will be running my show. The playlist will be a mixture of my tuneage and hers.

She'll also be the final test for a new network configuration here at Perfectable Orange Studios as I think I finally got my router to cope with Real Producer. I gave it a successful 1 hour Piracy spin on Sunday so we're hoping all will go well for the show.

Enjoy!

[Shawn]

Ha!  Routers and Real Producer seldom go together.  If you've mastered the configuration of this you will be my new hero.

[posmaster]

Maybe - but for 1 glorious hour it was functional... :-)

[Joel]

that's why they call him "Genius"

[FireBlade]

I run through a router - too easy!  

[Gruno]

I don't get it... why does a router seem to be the snafu here? I got my router about a year ago and it was a snap to set up. For a moment it wasn't letting me stream on Real Producer for more than 1 minute but I called NetGear and they had me change 2 settings and it was done. No problems at all.

--- GRUNO ---

[posmaster]

A) Real does not seem to provide any hard documentation with Real Producer

B) When I made my best guess on my needed router config, it didn't stay connected for more than 30 seconds.

C) I made some additional guesses (and to my mind unnecessary config changes) and it works - for no apparent reason.

D) It annoys me when products do not work according to documentation (or do not have any) so I assume companies that are to lame to not document stuff will have brain-dead support personnel. Just an assumption of course...

[Gruno]

B) When I made my best guess on my needed router config, it didn't stay connected for more than 30 seconds

See, I am not understanding this because I just called tech support and it took 2 minutes for them to tell me what to configure and then test.

--- GRUNO ---

[The_Lurker]

When I first tried to pirate, the same thing was happening to me. The Real Producer stream would cut off after 30 seconds or so. A tech talked me through some configuration changes that changed two things:

1. Gave me a private (rather than a group) IP address
2. Bypassed my modem's internal firewall, which was blocking incoming signals

Not the EXACT same problems perhaps, but sometimes those techy people from the computer companies actually know what they're doing.  

[posmaster]

Actually - that jives with the config changes I made... I set my router to accept incoming service requests as well as act as a pure port forwarder...