Connecting to Stratus fails 95% of the times

Question

Almost everytime I try to setup a NetConnection to my stratus URL, I have to wait about 90 seconds after which I get a connect failure. However, sometimes, about 5 out of 100 times I have to wait 30 seconds and then get a success message (even though 30 seconds is way too long).
I asked other people to run my application, and they do get a success almost instantly.
When I go to http://cc.rtmfp.net/ they are all green except:
- Knows public IP address of self (no NAT)
- Can Receive from same IP address, different UDP port number
- Can receive from different IP address, different UDP port number
I tried looking in my netgear router config, nothing special there.
Also, the funny thing is that I sometimes do get a success after 30 seconds (very rarely).
Finally, in other threads you said you cannot do much yourself about the P2P problems. My question is why applicatlions like Skype and MSN never have P2P problems, if you say this is impossible.
Best regards,
Tom

Answer 1

You don`t want this but opening all udp traffic ports does the trick.
What you can do is to setup a TURN/STUN proxy server your self for using stratus behind a nat/firewall
Direct UDP traffic is always attempted and the TURN proxy is only used as a backup: it is used for UDP traffic that cannot flow between Flash Player and Stratus (in case of UDP blocking firewall) or between Flash Player endpoints
I have a online TURN proxy for you so you can test this :
no-pxs2.realtunnel.com
Set this adres in your mms.cfg file wich is on your C:/ drive
It should look like :
RTMFPTURNProxy=no-pxs2.realtunnel.com
if you want to build a TURN server by yourself you can take a look at the PJNATH package