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Installation
To install Subspace just download the file and double click on the exe inside the zip file. It will automatically run you through a setup procedure.
Why doesn't my voice sound as good on their end? First, be sure it sounds good on your end by testing a playback sample in the Adjust dialog. Many times the solution is as simple as the distance or angle the microphone is from your mouth.
If you sound fine in your Adjustment dialog, the difference can either be a poor network connection or perhaps they have a bad sound card?
Why can't my team connect to 10.0.0.2? IP addresses that start with a "10." or "192." are private addresses and not routable across the internet. If your IP address starts with one of these; chances are you're behind a router that is using Network Address Translation (NAT). Not usually a problem, unless you're trying to Host a session. In which case you have two problems to solve. The first is to provide your router's public IP address to your team, and the second is to get your router to map the port your using to the IP address that the host PC is using. Usually it's much easier just to get someone else to host, but if you're ready to do this read on!
There are some freeware tools to get your IP address. But, keep in mind your IP address changes all the time, Everytime you re-establish a connection to your ISP provider there is a chance your IP address will change. So, getting it back to your team can be a battle in itself.
A much better way to is to provide your team mates a domain name. The domain name will be translated to your IP address automatically no matter how often it changes. Typically your ISP provider will give this to you for a small fee, or you can use one of the free services such as http://www.freedns.com/. But, if you really want to know your IP Address, Telnet into your router and ask it. In most instances there are a variety of ways to get it, for example "sh nat" will show the Private and Public IP address mappings. Check out the documentation from your router for details. Often routers will have built in help too (try a "?" or help at the prompt).
Now, to solve that other problem of mapping your router's IP address to your PC's IP address for a specific port. Routers typically have a service inside called NAT that maps your one public address to many private addresses on your local network. The way it does this is to keep track of the private address and translate the port is was using into a new port number. If you're initiating traffic it's a great solution as the system automatically handles everything. However, if you want to listen on a specific port so you can host a session, the Router doesn't know where to start. So, you have to tell it what to do.
By default, Subspace Communication hosts on port 3782 (but you can change it to whatever you like). Here's an example of the steps on a Cisco 678 router to map port 3782 to IP address 10.0.0.2 (this will cause all traffic to that port to go to that PC). White text is output from the router, fuchsia text is what you'd type in, and green text are comments.
To open a Telnet session click Start, then Run…, then type telnet 10.0.0.1 (routers typically start at .1) and click the OK button.
User Access Verification Password: *********
cbos> enable Password: *******
cbos# set nat entry add 10.0.0.2 3782 cbos# write
Sticky Shift Keys
If you press the Shift key 5 times consecutively in Windows® 2000 or Windows® XP the following message will appear:
By pressing the SHIFT key five times you have turned on the Sticky Keys feature in Windows® 2000 [or Windows® XP]. With this feature, you can lock down the CTRL, ALT, or SHIFT keys. This is useful if you are unable to hold down more than one key at a time.
To prevent this happening in the future, click the Settings button on the window referenced above. When the accessibility options screen appears, click the "Settings" button in the "Sticky Keys" portion of the window. On the next window (labelled "Settings For Sticky Keys"), uncheck the box that says, "Use shortcut," then click on "Apply," and close the windows.
Other Questions or Ideas?
Send me an email at paul@rainbowsEdge.net or check the website at www.rainbowsEdge.net to see if there is an update.
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