[X4U] FaceTime and local networks

[Bill Kostick]

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On Jan 13, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Jens Selvig <lstnmt at bresnan.net> wrote:

> If I were going solely from OS X to OS X iChat would work. I was wanting be able to use FaceTime, on an iPod Touch or an iPhone. If I'm not mistaken, would each Mac on the network need it very own email address to work with FaceTime or iChat?
> 
> Jens
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> On Jan 13, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Mark Gibson wrote:
> 
>> On 1/11/10 at 3:25 AM, lstnmt at bresnan.net (Jens Selvig) wrote:
>> 
>>> Is it possible to  use FaceTime within my local area network? It would be great to be able to use it sort of as an intercom. I guess a corrallary question is will it work between desktop computers. During the 'Back to Mac' video all that was mentioned was connecting with mobil iOS devices, which leads me to speculate that perhaps connecting from one iMac to another wouldn't work.
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>>> Jens
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>> Jens,
>> 
>> Why not use iChat for this?
>> 
>> It happily supports bonjour and will work on pretty much anything that runs OS X 10.2 (IIRC) or better.
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