When using MSN Messenger to webcam with my family we can see each other perfectly and they can hear me perfectly, but I can't hear them. It's not a mic problem as it works at their end for everything else, and we both have broadband connections. There shouldn't be a problem with memory or processor speed at either end either, and we have tried it without firewalls on.
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