iChat
Recently I bought a new router, a Netgear RangeMax, my old router was a Micrsoft one, ever sense i switced to this new Router, on start up i can run iChat fine, but after i close it and reopen it gives me an error saying: Lost connection with AIM.
I'll restart my computer and itll work fine untill i close it and want to reopen it and same error, only happened sense i switched my router.
I'll restart my computer and itll work fine untill i close it and want to reopen it and same error, only happened sense i switched my router.
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To do this you'll need to go to the router config page. Check you IP address in system prefs if you don't know the router IP. If your IP is 192.168.2.2 for example, the router will likely be 192.168.2.1. Enter it into a browser like Safari and go to the bit about the firewall and turn it off.
I go into my system preferences, find out my router number is: 192.000.1.5 and the router number is at the end .1 (made up numbers), than I go into my router settings, go to port forwarding for the final number it has 192.000.1.___ I would enter in .5 or .1? And the the ports it says starting points: Ending Ports: I would enter in S: 5297 E: 5298?
You would enter your number, which ends in .5. Basically it's forwarding information on that port to your computer. The problem with this setup is that if you have a non-static IP, that number can change meaning you have to change the forwarding again. Plus, you can't forward the same ports to more than one machine on the network.
For port number, you would enter 5297 for start and 5298 for end. If you get the option for both TCP and UDP, you can turn that on too.
Turning off the router firewall is perhaps not something you want to do if there are PCs on the network but Macs are more secure and you can always turn on the software firewall.
So I don't think it's a firewall or routing issue since it seems to be specific to iChat. I've heard from another person with a similar problem that even the OS X AIM client works, but iChat does not.
The next step is to disable the SPI firewall. You'll still have an inherent firewall setup, I think the SPI just tries to detect denial-of-service attacks on any ports you may have opened deliberately. Perhaps it's getting a false-positive on that detection - again maybe iChat is acting a little different than other AIM clients.
Go to Ichat/preferences
click on accounts, then click on server settings
Then put in 443 as the Port.
Done
don't check connect using proxy.