MSN Webcam Problem

I can't get my webcam to work on MSN with people not at the Uni. (not on the network). Is everyone experiencing this? Is there a solution?

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Reply 1

Lucky_7's

I've been having this problem myself. Just assumed I'd set it up wrong.

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Reply 2

sophie_c

Are you using university internet? I don't know about at Lancaster, but at St Andrews MSN webcam is blocked on the network, though skype webcam isn't :wink:

Hope you get it sorted :smile:

Reply 3

dhr90

The uni may have blocked the port which allows webcams to be used.

Reply 4

randomistloz

Mine works too :s-smilie:

Reply 5

Fishstikk

Mine wasn't working the other day, don't know why, don't really care that much to be honest though :biggrin:

Reply 6

athamas

if you have set the webcahe settings correctly, it should work, however some webcams are very bandwidth intensive and if everyone on your corrridor is using i player etc... it may fail..

dont think they are blocked anymore.. they were.. but should work now everything is free'd up

Reply 7

ISS Monkey 2

athamas

dont think they are blocked anymore.. they were.. but should work now everything is free'd up

Everything is permitted by default, however we do block various bad things such as known viruses, trojans and other regularly abused internet protocols (, such as the various database server ports that viruses like, etc). Also as much as I hate to contradict Athamas it's extremely unlikely that a user using iPlayer in your corridor would cause you MSN problems.

iPlayer is perhaps 3-4mbs of traffic, your switches are all uplinked at 1000mbs. Even if everyone but you was using it that's only 188mbs, still 812mbs for your MSN webcam.... plenty :wink:

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It is possible that the most likely point of contention is full, we did start to see that at the end of the year last year, but I haven't checked. However you would find that even if it was the case, it would work, just badly and it'd stutter and you'd get damaged pictures from the other side.

The likelyhood is that it's webcache config somewhere, check IEs settings, ensure your using the proxy script (or PAC file), if you're are, you could try statically setting the http and https proxies to something like wwwcache0.lancs.ac.uk.

That being said, I can't remember if modern MSN prefers web based traffic, or if it goes and does it's own thing. If it does it's own thing, or a mix, it could be making assumptions that just aren't true.

It could also be a version thing, are you using the most recent version, get people who it's working for to give you the version their using, etc.

You might find it's something that's fixed. As always your mileage may vary, they're computers, they never do the same thing twice.

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Reply 8

athamas

ahh, i need to be contradicted sometimes...

i make assumptions about things that are almost correct but not quite...

msn did do un update recently.. this may have broken/fixed the webcam problem..

Reply 9

BJP

2 ISS Monkey

The likelyhood is that it's webcache config somewhere, check IEs settings, ensure your using the proxy script (or PAC file), if you're are, you could try statically setting the http and https proxies to something like wwwcache0.lancs.ac.uk.