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Message: [QUOTE="Rich Rohrich, post: 401244, member: 16241"] It's pretty common at big companies to set the firewall policies to block the TCP/IP ports used by all of the major instant messaging software (ICQ, ISPQ, MSN, AIM, etc) and most streaming media ports as well. There is an upside though. Lots of companies use Netmeeting to conduct normal business so it's pretty common to leave those ports open. If your IP address doesn't change too often you [b]might[/b] be able to send it to your chat friends and use Netmeeting (free from Microsoft if it's not on your system) as your messenger. You can put your friends in the NM address book and just gte them to load it at Windows start-up. It can just sit in the background waiting to answer a call. Really hardcore IT groups only let Netmeeting run inside the firewall on the intranet (i.e. people on YOUR network) but it's worth a try. [/QUOTE]