QuickTime streaming video and Netgear routers: the solution

Regarding yesterday's item on problems with QuickTime streaming video and Netgear routers, Chuck Culley had the same problem with his RT328 Netgear ISDN router and received a reply from Netgear similar to the one we posted yesterday:

"You are correct that the problem is probably NAT. Unfortunately, there is no way to map a range of ports that large with the RT328. You can only map 8 ports, and you are talking about mapping 30. You could try using the default mapping in menu 15 -- but this will work for only one computer."

However, Chuck adds: "But since I have upgraded to QuickTime 4.1 I just set the QuickTime Streaming Transport preferences to use HTTP port 80 and it is working just fine."

Tom Lisney agrees: "The solution is to download/update to QuickTime 4.1 and set Streaming Transport to 'Use HTTP (port 80)' in the QuickTime Settings control panel. Worked a treat for me."

Another reader adds: "On the server side, they may have to enable a new feature in QuickTime Streaming Server 2.0: streaming over HTTP on port 80."

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