IChat to AIM problems

Recently my iChat has started having connection problems and I don't know why.
I have it set up with an AIM account and very often (but not always!) it won't connect 'iChat can't communicate with the AIM account... The server did not respond'.
When it does randomly connect, it will eventually drop the connection.
I would have thought it to be a problem with the AIM servers, but i have installed AIM since this started happening and it seems to work absolutely fine with the same port setting (5190) etc.
Before anyone suggests port 443 again, i've tried.
I've tried quitting and deleting the iChat p.lists before restarting as others have suggested...
Any bright ideas out there for this miserable problem??
I really want to continue to use my iChat
p.s +Im on iChat 5.0.3 (745)+
Message was edited by: euanjunior

Hi,
If you are using MoreiChatEffects some of the Quartz Files were designed under Leopard's Quartz Composer (You get it if you Install Developers Tools from The Install Disk > Optional Installs Folder).
Some are sorted by running iChat in 32 Bit mode. Some remain showing either a Black or White screen instead and few create other issues like reversing the colours despite being in 32 Bit mode.
This is a Developers Problem. They have not kept up-to-date with the OS Releases.
I see nothing on the Site (http://ismileys.free.fr/moreichateffects/ ) to indicate any date reference to the Utility's last build.
On the Wifi Front.
Channel 9 on my European able Device is near the middle. There can be interference for other routers using a nearby channel. Personally I have moved to Channel 2.
Interferences can also come from Cables in walls, the power "bricks" for devices like peripherals and Laptops, not to mention the router's own one. Also check out Microwave Ovens that are nearby.
At my house I had my router near the front of the house near the front door where I have created my "office" and where the phone Line come s into the building. I had it raised about 4 feet off the ground (just over 1 Metre) to avoid the power bricks.
Where my "office" is used to be a flat roof extension to the front of the ground floor with the upper storey supported by a Steel joist about 2 metres into the building. This joist seemed to cause a problem for the rear bedroom and a PC Laptop that was wireless.
I moved the router to another phone outlet beyond the steel joist. The laptop also left home with my daughter but my son reports no problems now that he uses that room. (I never really found out if moving the router helped with that particular Laptop).
8:26 PM Tuesday; November 2, 2010
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