Yahoo Messenger Question

hotzeming

I started to use Yahoo Messenger just last week. In the first day, I could talk to my friend after he updated his version the same as mine. The voice was perfect just like telephone. But after that day I could not talk to him anymore. We can place call to each other, but most of the time, our pc do not ring and showed that the other was not one line. We could leave a voice message for the other. Also, we still can communicate with each other using instant message. Any idea what is wrong? Will it because of many people are using it at the same time?

LIN

easy stuff out of the way first - have you checked your mic and speakers?

* make sure the mic is plugged in correctly.
* adjust the mic properties.
- go to the control panel (start button -- settings -- control panel)
- click on the multimedia icon
- you should see a tab for audio
- make sure that the recording volume is set high.
* you can test your mic. by doing the following.
- Click the Windows Start button, then go to Programs, then Accessories, then Multimedia, then click on Sound Recorder
- A new window called Sound Recorder will pop up. Click on the record button (a red circle), then say a few words, then click the stop button (black square).
- Click the play button (black triangle).
If you can hear yourself fine, then your microphone is okay. If you can't hear your voice using Sound Recorder, the voice chat should not work either.

Check connection - When you enter into a voice chat with friends, each participant should take turns trying to press and hold down the Press to Talk button. Everyone else should see their name turn red when they do that. If you see their names turn red, but don't hear anything, it may be a microphone / speaker problem, or it may be that we have more bugs that we need to fix.

http://au.messenger.yahoo.com/voicechat.html


LIN

hotzeming

Hello Lin,

Thanks for your help. I followed your steps and found that my mic was not responding. Then I uninstall the Yahoo Messenger and download it again. After that I found my mic was working. However, I still cannot talk to other people like before.
Also I found that the first time I talked to someone successfully was not like what you describe that each have to press a button and take turn to talk. We could just take freely like using the land line.
Any more suggestion to me?

LIN wrote:

easy stuff out of the way first - have you checked your mic and speakers?

* make sure the mic is plugged in correctly.
* adjust the mic properties.
- go to the control panel (start button -- settings -- control panel)
- click on the multimedia icon
- you should see a tab for audio
- make sure that the recording volume is set high.
* you can test your mic. by doing the following.
- Click the Windows Start button, then go to Programs, then Accessories, then Multimedia, then click on Sound Recorder
- A new window called Sound Recorder will pop up. Click on the record button (a red circle), then say a few words, then click the stop button (black square).
- Click the play button (black triangle).
If you can hear yourself fine, then your microphone is okay. If you can't hear your voice using Sound Recorder, the voice chat should not work either.

Check connection - When you enter into a voice chat with friends, each participant should take turns trying to press and hold down the Press to Talk button. Everyone else should see their name turn red when they do that. If you see their names turn red, but don't hear anything, it may be a microphone / speaker problem, or it may be that we have more bugs that we need to fix.

http://au.messenger.yahoo.com/voicechat.html


LIN

LIN

hi hotzeming - i don't use it myself but i'll keep looking.. glad you've got your mic working again though.

meanwhile, - anyone else familiar with this?

LIN