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Voice Receiving Problem


Phillip Levy 1086899
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Phillip Levy 1086899
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Hello everyone, I have been using VRC for a few months and I cannot seem to RCX voice... Pilots can here me but I can hear anyone. Somtimes I can see the RCX light up orange as if they are talking to me, but I cannot actually hear anything. I also cannot "calibrate my mic" as I it says my backround noise it too great and when I click to hear "playback" I cannot hear anything.

 

System:

Vista 64x

I have changed my port forwarding and what not.

I have my audio settings set to "Wave"

I run VRC as an admin

Its the most frustrating thing ever!

 

Any advice would be great, even if it's a link to a past forum, if you have questions about what I have and have not changed please ask.

See you in the virtual sky ,

Phillip Levy

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Wade Williams 877539
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Phillip,

 

Quite possible your ISP is blocking the UDP voice traffic.

 

I have this issue if I forget to disconnect from my work connection before connecting to VATSIM. I can see planes, text, etc and voice appears configured correctly, but no voice. This is because my employer blocks UDP traffic. As soon as I disconnect and go to my home ISP, everything works.

 

If you're at a university, this is quite likely the cause as most universities will block UDP traffic as well.

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Phillip Levy 1086899
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Well, I am at home...if you know how to find out if this is the problem/fix it, then please help!

Thanks,

See you in the virtual sky ,

Phillip Levy

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Wade Williams 877539
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Phillip,

 

If you're on a cable modem, the quickest test would be to connect your PC directly to the cable modem, byp[Mod - Happy Thoughts]ing any routers. If that works, the problem is in the router.

 

If you're on DSL, then the problem may be that your DSL modem is acting as a router and port forwarding needs to be configured in it.

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Johnathan McKiney 973523
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I had the same problem back in '06. I was wondering if it is possible that my home ISP blocks UDP as well.

 

I never did figure it out. Is it possible, for starters... that it's because I'm using a dial-up modem?

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