Ichat problem

SBD · 03-02-2007, 03:38 AM

My friends in Hawaii and I (in New Zealand) have ichatted beautifully before on our macbook pro's, but now the .mac account's have expired and we don't want to pay for the pleasure, we have both got ourselves AIM screen names to use with ichat instead.
This should work sweet (if you believe everything you read), but we both recieve an error when connecting.
After initiating the chat and establishing a connection the program responds with "(user name) failed to respond", user name being our own computer!!
Any ideas, or similar problems solved??
Thanks

Namslas90 · 03-02-2007, 03:40 AM

Try Skype for MAC. it's also free!

http://www.skype.com/download/

SBD · 03-02-2007, 06:48 AM

Thanks.
I've got it and it works, but the quality of ichat seems better, so really keen to get it going.
Thanks again though

Wile E · 03-03-2007, 06:33 AM

If you're not concerned about video/audio chatting, you can give Adium a try. But if video/audio is your concern, I'm sorry to say that I don't actually use iChat on my Mac, so I can't help you.

SBD · 03-05-2007, 01:58 AM

Thanks anyway Wile E.

Dippyskoodlez · 03-10-2007, 11:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SBD

Thanks.
I've got it and it works, but the quality of ichat seems better, so really keen to get it going.
Thanks again though

I believe this is a conflict with AIM's piss poor protocols.

Try yahoo, or Google maybe.

03-02-2007, 03:38 AM	#1
SBD Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 3 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Ichat problem My friends in Hawaii and I (in New Zealand) have ichatted beautifully before on our macbook pro's, but now the .mac account's have expired and we don't want to pay for the pleasure, we have both got ourselves AIM screen names to use with ichat instead. This should work sweet (if you believe everything you read), but we both recieve an error when connecting. After initiating the chat and establishing a connection the program responds with "(user name) failed to respond", user name being our own computer!! Any ideas, or similar problems solved?? Thanks

03-02-2007, 03:40 AM	#2
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03-02-2007, 06:48 AM	#3
SBD Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 3 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Thanks. I've got it and it works, but the quality of ichat seems better, so really keen to get it going. Thanks again though

03-05-2007, 01:58 AM	#5
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