Aim goes freaky like with ichat

So i have a problem:
I just got a new computer with leopard on it. The first 3 days were awesome on ichat, both my AIM and ichat worked fine.... but both my AIM and ICHAT log me on but no one is online, even though I know some people are on. I logged on to my sisters AIM account and it worked fine. Also with my AIM if i leave it on when it shows no one is online, it will freak out, log me off, and automaticly try to log me back on until it will lock the account for a bit, and i did turn off the automatic sign on in the preferences and it still happens....
HELP! Please what do i do?

Hi
Try logging on to AIM on port 443 rather than port 5190.
Go to IChat in the menu bar > Preferences > Accounts.
Log out of AIM and then use the Server Settings tab
Set the port to 443.
Log back in again.
Tony

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HI Rj,
As Triton got to it's current version as a Beta and then without any apparent changes become the item on the AIM latest page link http://www.aim.com/getaim/win/latestwin.adp I would presume it is not a fully functional item yet.
Particularly as AIM 5.9 is still available here http://www.aim.com/getaim/win/otherwin.adp?aolp=
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Hello
I am having the odd problem of being able to video chat with someone when they are using their pc running aim, but I cant chat with the same person when he on his Mac!
I am running as DMZ behind a Linksys WRT54G wireless router.
The problem is on my side because I cant chat with the test accounts either.
I tried this after bothe forwarding and triggering all the ports that were suggested.
I am stumped!

Hi Lullah,
This is going to be down to the Staelite connection.
It has what is called latency.
This adds an unexceptable delay in the passing of data at the start of the connection.
Very few people have reported success.
The things you can try are to fool the link into passing more intense data prior to starting a chat.
If you have web pages try uploading a Pic of larger file to the site.
Just as this finishes start up iChat
You should also check that System Preferences > Quicktime > Streaming tab has the speed to match you download set.
Hopefully (But no reported success) you may get iChat to see more bandwidth as you have just had the modem busy.
Following the launch of iChat with a video chat request may be able to get that bandwidth.
Realistically the 128 k upload even if you were getting close to it is very tight to the lowest point Apple say will work.
Speed testing a 128 k service i likely to get a result of about 80% of the figure (102k) iChat will use about 80 % of what is left (you are down to about 83K). You are now below the 100k min.
With regards to your LAN there are several things that may help if not set up already.
Only have one device doing DHCP. The way routers work as compared to modems is that they pass all routing data though to the computers.
This means the computers can be sitting in two subnets (1) from Modem to computer via router and (2) from Router. The computer can only display one of these IP addresses but can get confuse info regarding iChat.
Do not use Port Forwarding or Port triggering, twice or together on the LAN. iCHAT does not like two lots of NAT (bath are forms of Network Address Translation [NAT]).
Use UPnP where you can.
IF you are trying to test this yur Mac to your PC you ahve to allow for the fact that the modem is handling two Video chats in effect. This means you need twice the minimum bandwidth (let alone the fact that ichat to AIM semms to like 50% more than Mac to Mac contacts.
Sorry to be the bearer of so much doom and gloom.
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I think many people have had cause to search the web to find answers to why ICHAT AV3 does not work with AIM. As was the case under Panther and ICHAT. I have looked at these pages with great interest hoping to see an apple solution to these problems. But not a peep.
It is thanks to people like Ralph Johns and others that have offered very detailed technical advice and assitance on how to resolve the problems much better quality than you will find from Apple support. But am afraid for most non technical morons this is far too complicated for us to deal with. In this era of plug and play we should not be expected to become network experts.
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Hi Peter.
Welcome to the Apple Dicussion Pages
Some very salient points you make here.
However many people seem to think that a new application will work the same way and email and we browsing do, which have been around for years. I sure there was a time when people new to the intenet in it's infancy doubted it would catch on. I am sure those people, when used to the internet, found email programes just as difficult, as people now find setting up iChat, with all the new fangled POP or IMAP servers.
Apple, as it usually does, has aimed (pun intended) high with this application and have brought it from a text based IM chat tools to what it is today in just over two years.
Having said that they have decided to use the AIM servers to do this on. That lead me to this:
The other major irritation is that if you contact Apple support regarding the issues you get a 10 minute story on how they do not support AIM???? Is very helpul.
The Moderators (Hosts) of these boards do read the posts for Ideas and common problems But sometimes using http://www.apple.com/feedback/ichat.html also can help. Whichever method you rely on to get the message across you will not get a direct reply, and I appreciate this is not very satisfying.
The essesence of why you should set up your home network so that is does not have overlapping subnets is easy to describe. The how this is done with the myriad of devices out there is a litlle nore difficult.
In time iChat and other IM applications may become more tolerant of how people just plug modems and routers together in default DHCP server mode.
In the meantime if you want to stay near the front of this technology, you will have to change your thinking to that of the pioneers of the internet.
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Hi,
I am trying to use iChat with friends using AIM (on PC).
But I have never been able to start an audio session with someone (exchange of text messages is Ok).
The "button" with the phone remains grey (not active). So I cannot start an audio session after contact selection).
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I would like to do have also video with friends but I would like to be able to do audio before !
When I see all problems in the iChat discussion, I am a little bit afraid ...
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email : [email protected]

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See this FAQ
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Trillian Basic does allow Audio Chats from PCs to Mac usiing the same AIM servers (Smae names will work). They also do a Pro version that will do Video as well (costs $25).
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I've had a lot of trouble with AIM and iChat on my new Macbook, but I believe I've figured out the answers to all the problems I and others have encountered.
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ichat- (number of voice chats total, and specs to do it)
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garageband- (number of real tracks it can take, up to 8)
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garageband- (how it records the chat(s) http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/features/ichatrecording.html
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Then HE sent the invite and it worked. Great, we were chatting no problem. So I open Garageband and tried to record. Only one chat track. It has both of our voices, but only one track. Tried, new track, new basic track, new podcast track, and they were all the same. They were also all chosen with the "real instrument" choice because of the input from the mic.
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The reason I am using a PowerWave for "in and out" is because A- I record a lot of vinyl and analog sources into my computer and the PowerWave has the best input/output solution short of getting any M-Audio products which I'm too broke to get. And B- my Apple Pro Speakers had the prong on the jack snap off in the speaker audio out jack, leaving me with only headphones for audio out. (with the prong stuck in the speaker jack the computer will think the speakers are still plugged in and won't play via "built in audio", but anything plugged into the headphone jack will over-ride that.) The Griffin PowerWave is connected via USB and works right around all of that.
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http://www.welovemacs.com/3254pwrw.html
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Keith M

Alrighty-
I just got off the phone with Apple support. With their tech I was able to find that this DOES work with my set-up.
While I was using iChat and my AIM account, the tech and I were able to have an audio chat and have garageband record it using HIS (the tech) .mac account as well as his AIM account.
What we seemed to find out that if I want to record it, I have to be the one that initiates the chat. (which is why my friend sending the invite didn't let it work and it was recording it as one track.)
If I send the invite and the other party accepts it, I then opened Garageband, started a standard "new project" (deleated the defualt grand piano track) then chose "new track" with "real instrument" and the following message came up- "garageband is detecting and active ichat, do you want to record that chat"(paraphrased): I chose "yes" and away we went recording the chat with one track for each participant.
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Anyway, keep adding to this if you want, and keep it as a resource for more people, but this does work (for now) and if ther are any more revelations about (number of participants, etc) it I'll follow up here.

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Hi,
The answer is yes but your question is wrong.
The AIM page for Registration now allows you to use any Email ID as a Screen Name.
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