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Re:The power of Apple's FaceTime commercial by demallien on Sunday July 11, 2010 @04:51PM (#1506097)
Regardless, you can't really argue with the Apple tech note that jonknee linked to - those ports really do need to have port-forwarding enabled for it to work. I'm a big Apple fan, but they still have gotten the firewall-piercing trick down as well as Skype has.
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Re:The power of Apple's FaceTime commercial by astrange on Monday July 12, 2010 @02:41AM (#1507057)
The firewall punching (STUN) works as well as firewall punching works for anyone else. Peer-to-peer between phones won't work if the firewall is setup to block phones, but Skype won't work if the firewall blocks Skype.
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