Skype calls just say connecting... and don't ring
Me and my fried have been trying to talk for over an hour. It says connecting for both of us. Yes we disabled the firewallYes we updated to the newest versionYes we restarted Skype and the Computers Is it impossible to get help??
I finally found a solution as to why this was happening for me. Now I don't know if this will work for everyone else or why this even started randomly happening 2 updates ago when I hadn't even changed any of my router settings in months but anyways yeah.... So funny enough I stumbled across this while looking up why I wasn't able to connect to FFIV servers, I would get a connection error and my game client would crash. I found out that this was a common problem for Comcast (Xfinity) users. What I did was in my firewall settings was check "Block IDENT (port 113)" and "Block ICMP" under "Custom Security". Now that fixed my problem with the game, but it made me think that maybe this had something to do with my Skype problem, and low and behold, everything was working 100% fine again. Now I am not 100% positive on this, but I believe it was the "Block IDENT (port 113)" portion that enabled my Skype to be able to make normal calls again, but I guess anyone who knows more about networking might be able to correct me here, but after looking into this a bit I did find some threads about relation of Skype and IDENT (port 113 usually), so it leads me to believe that if you have a router like mine, or can figure out how to change the settings in your router, it may fix this issue. Just for reference I have an Arris TG862g Xfinity router. Attached are screenshots of my routers interface and the options I have checked that worked for me. I don't suggest copying this completely and leaving it, but play around with your settings to see if this works while still having your correct firewall settings in place. This is what worked for me and I hope that some form of this is the solution for everyone else.
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