If no one can visit your chat room except yourself, please check these possibilities:
First, please check if there is some firewall software on your computer. Outside
requests may be blocked by your firewall. You can config the firewall to enable
the port number of Chat Anywhere or allow Chat Anywhere to respond outside requests.
Then please make sure that other computers can access your computer directly.
Suppose those computers all installed Chat Anywhere, then
1) Computer 1, 2, 3 can access computer 4
2) Computer 1, 2, 3 can access each other
3) Computer 4 can only access computer 2, it can not access computer 1 and 3 directly.
So if you installed Chat Anywhere on computer 1 or 3, your friends from computer
4 can not access your chat room.
Then please ask your friends to ping the IP address of your computer. Please ask
them to open a ms-dos command window.
Then type 'ping YourIP' and then press the 'enter' key. For example,
If they can only see 'Request timed out', it means that they can not access your
computer directly at all. There could be a firewall software on your computer,
which blocks all outside requests. Or your computer doesn't not connect to the
internet directly.
For Windows XP user:
There is a Internet connection firewall on the Windows XP system. By default it
is disabled. But it may be enabled so outside requests may be blocked by the firewall.
To disable the Internet connection firewall of Windows XP, please follow these
steps: 1) Open Network Connections (Click Start, click Control Panel, and then
double-click Network Connections.) 2) Click the Dial-up, LAN or High-Speed Internet
connection, and then, under Network Tasks, click Change settings of this connection.
3) On the Advanced tab, under Internet Connection Firewall, clear the "Protect
my computer and network by limiting or preventing access to this computer from
the Internet" check box.