Ichat/aim/adium problems

when i sign in to ichat, aim, and adium, i stay logged in for a little while, but then it signs me off and doesn't tell me that i've been kicked off. it looks like i'm online but none of my friends can see me. there is a lag like this for a couple of minutes and then it finally tells me that the connection timed out if i try typing another message. this is very frustrating. i've tried reinstalling everything and it doesn't help. i have also tried changing the aim port to 443. does anyone have any insight?

Hi,
Try turning Off the SSL option in iChat (And in Adium if it has it).
iChat needs this manually reset if the Connection is lost to the SSL server at AIM (It also goes down more frequently than the regular server).
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