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Pocket PC Forum / End Users / Pocket PC / November 2005Microsoft Portrait
Has anyone ever used this program? Will it work with WM5? Thanks http://research.microsoft.com/mcom/portrait/ Regards, Mike O'Brien life is full of choices; choices have consequences I don't have a WM5 device, but the program works very well on my iPAQ 5555 over my home 802.11b wireless LAN to the public internet. I have used it to talk to my brother in Florida. Both of us using wireless iPAQs...:-)  SignatureAl Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking) Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the mutual benefit of all of us... The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights... > Has anyone ever used this program? Will it work with WM5? Thanks > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > life is full of choices; choices have consequences works... camera support is limited to a few older cameras, but voice and text work without issue. If you want to communicate directly from ppc to ppc, you will need to get by the adhoc connection issues. Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices] > If you want to communicate directly from ppc to ppc, you will need to > get by the adhoc connection issues. What might those be? Thanks. Regards, Mike O'Brien life is full of choices; choices have consequences >> What might those be? Thanks. << I know that the HP CF camera was one, but don't know any further details. Suggest contacting the Portrait people directly. It has been my experience (a few years ago) that they were very responsive to user questions and input. Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices] Well you'll need to setup an adhoc connection that means you'll need to be in a static IP addressing mode as their is not a DHCP server. You'll need to configure your WEP key if you use one. And you'll need to use IP addressing. SignatureDavid {MVP} Microsoft Mobile Devices Mobile AntiVirus Researchers Association Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the mutual benefit of all of us... The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com The MARA Program - http://www.mobileav.org/index.html This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights... Spelling and grammar errors left in for those that need a little joy in their life by correcting me. >> If you want to communicate directly from ppc to ppc, you will need to >> get by the adhoc connection issues. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > life is full of choices; choices have consequences That's no necessarily so with the ad hoc connection. The person to whom you wish to talk might be half way around the world. Portrait does use IP so you would need a valid IP connection, but you can use DHCP. You just need the IP address of the person you are calling (so statics might help.) If you are using WiFi (there are other ways to be on an IP network other than WiFi), you will need to be able to connect to the connection point, but if you need to set up the WEP point depends on the connection point. Many are open, some are subscription (Starbucks), others you just need to register yout MAC address (my local university.) Jim > Well you'll need to setup an adhoc connection that means you'll need to be > in a static IP addressing mode as their is not a DHCP server. You'll need > to configure your WEP key if you use one. And you'll need to use IP > addressing. To be clear my brother and I only use the audio chat and file transfer features to test. We did not have cameras on our iPAQs. I have tested with a local desktop on my home LAN and received video from the desktop web cam. That worked well also. As far as addressing is concerned, Portrait does direct IP-to-IP calling so I simply called the local IP of my desktop or in the case of my brother the public IP of his home router or vice versa, ie. he called my routers public IP. He/I had previously setup the proper port forwarding on his/my router to point Portrait call, video and audio traffic to his/my iPAQ. See Portrait help for port information, but off the top of my head it was... TCP Port 8100 Portrait Call UDP Port 8110 Portrait Video UDP Port 8120 Portrait Audio You also might look into using Skype for audio chat. That works real well, IMHO. Currently my brother and I use Skype all the time (versus Portrait), either iPAQ to iPAQ or iPAQ to desktop (his or mine). Skype has superior audio IMHO. http://www.skype.com/ SignatureAl Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking) Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the mutual benefit of all of us... The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights... >> If you want to communicate directly from ppc to ppc, you will need to >> get by the adhoc connection issues. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > life is full of choices; choices have consequences >To be clear my brother and I only use the audio chat and file transfer >features to test. We did not have cameras on our iPAQs. I have tested with a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >public IP of his home router or vice versa, ie. he called my routers public >IP. You should be able to shortcut that IP malarkey - it did and afaik still does allow calling to MSN messenger contacts. Cheers - Neil > He/I had previously setup the proper port forwarding on his/my router to >point Portrait call, video and audio traffic to his/my iPAQ. See Portrait [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >http://www.skype.com/ I never ever use Messenger anymore particularly since I only audio chat with my brother... With Skype I always log off and quite the application also... SignatureAl Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking) Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the mutual benefit of all of us... The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights... >>To be clear my brother and I only use the audio chat and file transfer >>features to test. We did not have cameras on our iPAQs. I have tested with [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >> >>http://www.skype.com/ Al, since you brought up skype, curious to your thoughts of portrait compared to skype. if all you are using is the chat and voice, how do they compare ?? Thanks KDE | I never ever use Messenger anymore particularly since I only audio chat with | my brother... With Skype I always log off and quite the application also... [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] | >> | >>http://www.skype.com/ The audio quality, at least in our experience, is very good and far superior to Portrait. Of course we both have broadband internet access and that may make a difference. I also seem to remember that Portrait audio on the PocketPC was half-duplex only, although its been a while sine I used Portrait and later versions may have gone to full-duplex. SignatureAl Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking) Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the mutual benefit of all of us... The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights... > Al, since you brought up skype, curious to your thoughts of portrait > compared to skype. if all you are using is the chat and voice, how do > they > compare ?? > Thanks > KDE |
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