Mac Treat #15: Modify iChat Ports for Better Performance.
By Seth%40Smalldog.com">Seth
Smalldog.com
This is a tip for iChat AV in OS 10.4. It originally ran in Tech Tails,
but a number of people found it so useful, that we decided to run it
again.
Recently I was having problems connecting to iChat, was getting random
disconnections from AIM, and I couldn't video chat. I did some
research on various message boards, where I discovered a consensus that
port 443 is the most stable for video chat. My iChat preferences were
set to port 1053. To view your iChat port settings, simply launch
iChat, then browse to Preferences > Accounts > Server Settings. There
you will see assigned ports.
Everything is working now! I was pretty excited to have worked it out.
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