UPnP help please!

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Hi Paul,

If the ports are being added and forwarded properly, yes, it looks like Messenger is
reporting it wrong.
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"Paul Westwell" <paul.news@nospam.westwell.me.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi again!
>
> UPnP seem to be a pain since XP SP2, it certainly seemed to break some routers!
>
> I am now running a Linksys WRT54GS with third party Alchemy software and although my
> internet gateway icon appears under network connections MSN messenger reports a "non UPnP
> port restricted NAT".
>
> Having said that hat I have not found anything does not work on messenger yet, Video,
> voice, games and test seem to all work.
>
> What problems am I likely to have with messenger? is UPnP working ok and messenger is
> fibbing?
>
> If I click on the internet gateway icon and look at settings I see messenger ports mapped.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
>