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iChat Audio Chat Issues

My friend and I have been having some very aggravating issues with iChat. We are trying to do an Audio Conference, calling from iChat. The box says 'Waiting for Recipient', moves on to 'Connecting', but then errs with 'Error -8'. I have been researching this issue for many moons, and we both can connect to Apple's test clients. However, we cannot chat with each other. I am network-savvy, and we have troubleshooted enough to rule out each of our routers (replacing & changing settings). I am thinking there is a hidden setting somewhere we need to work with to get this functioning. We both use AIM accounts. Thank you in advance for any help you may provide.

iMac G3, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jan 19, 2008 9:48 PM

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Jan 29, 2008 7:11 PM in response to Jorge_01

Okay, I opened the ports and (I suppose) we are making progress, because we have moved from Error-8 to Error-22. We have verified that the quicktime streaming settings are set to the rate we tested (approx. 1.5Mbps), although iChat still says we have insufficient bandwidth. Getting better?

Jan 31, 2008 12:08 PM in response to Jorge_01

Ok,

The Suggestion was that UPnP should be the method used.

If changing to Port Forwarding then UPnP needs to be turned Off.

UPnP is probably the most suitable way of allowing ports as it allows multiple computers to use the same ports whereas Port Forwarding does not.

Regarding settings have these been done on the other end as well ?

8:08 PM Thursday; January 31, 2008

Apr 20, 2008 10:16 PM in response to Jorge_01

I have noticed one thing and that is that there is sometimes insufficient bandwidth witch may cause an error of -8

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Oct 23, 2008 3:10 PM in response to Jorge_01

Got new computer, works on this one. Yay!

iChat Audio Chat Issues