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What's the Meebo Repeater and is it safe?

The Meebo Repeater can only access meebo.com, so unlike other proxies that give anyone access to any site from your computer, the Meebo Repeater can only be used for chatting. Also, the Meebo Repeater supports SSL and non-SSL so you don't have to worry about anyone reading your IMs.

The repeater is fully open source and built on top of rinetd, which has received many years of testing. And if we ever find a critical bug, we can disable all of the repeaters remotely and ask everyone to upgrade.

How do I set up the repeater?

1. Download the repeater from your home computer
2. Run the repeater
3. If any firewall warnings pop up, enable Meebo to use the network (the repeater should automatically detect the windows firewall and enable itself).
4. Wait for the repeater to activate itself and test your connection. If it succeeded, it will tell you the URL you can use to access Meebo Messenger.

What do I do if the repeater fails to activate?

Most likely you are behind a router (like a wireless router). You will need to enable UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) or enable pass through of ports 443 (SSL) and 80 (HTTP).

To do this:

1. Connect to your router in a Web browser:
   Usually you can just go to http://192.168.0.1

   If that doesn't work, try:

   1. Start Menu
   2. Run...
   3. type "cmd" at the prompt
   4. type "ipconfig" at the prompt
   5. and use the address shown under Default Gateway
2. Log in as the administrator
   On most routers this is username: admin password blank or admin

   Otherwise, look it up here: http://www.phenoelit-us.org/dpl/dpl.html

3. Enable UPnP
   Look for an option that says "enable UPnP" or "Enable Universal Plug and Play"

   Doing this will allow the repeater to automatically reconfigure your router.

   Otherwise you will need to look for "Port Forwarding" or "Virtual Server" and add entries for port 443 and 80.

   This site can help you with the details: http://portforward.com

4. Exit the repeater and restart it.

How did you build the repeater?

The repeater is completely based on open source software we were able to package up into something safe for our users. You can find all of repeater source here.