Could not connect to AIM Error - you have attempted to login too often....

Try port 5191.

Try rebooting your Mac.

Any solution to this? We have the same problem on 3 computers. Could the netgear router be the problerm?

Thanks

The opening preferences, uncheck multiple logins, and restore defaults did the trick for me...

now only if my settings could REMAIN set

I just upgraded (hah) to a netgear wrg614 v9, and since then, i get the rapid login/logoff then 'you have logged in too many times' error.

Even setting discrete port forwarding for ichat/aim to my machine does nothing. Sounds like the netgear wap was a less than wise purchase. The roommate and I are thinking maybe a different brand of wap since netgear has been all of no help whatsoever.

I have officially given up trying to fix it. after wasting the better part of 2 days, i'll just use yahoo im for the time being.

Ah the future, where stuff still doesn't work.

I would tend to agree with you myself.

It does seem that for whatever reason the 614 series is particularly prone to this.

However I have heard that at v8 and above it seesm to be sorted.

Have you set the DOS/SPI item to Off in the WAN page of the Netgears set up pages ?
Have you allowed it to Respond to Internet Pngs on the same page ?
These tend to be the common settings for Netgears to work.
This has become more important with iChat 4 sending all the A/V data on one port that can sometimes be seen by the DO (Or SPI) as an Internet Attack.



8:12 PM Friday; June 20, 2008

Posted this a while back.

"Got my sister a Netgear 614v9 and works ok on virgin media cable.

UPnP is on(no ports added)
Disable Port Scan and DOS/SPI
Enabled ping"

Also logged in on to AIM on port 443 rather than port 5190.

Go to IChat in the menu bar > Preferences > Accounts.
Log out of AIM and then use the Server Settings tab
Set the port to 443.
Log back in again.

Tony

Blast !

I thought I remembered it as Version 8

Thanks for the reminder.



8:29 PM Friday; June 20, 2008

Yeah, I tried just about everything I could find to fix this issue. It definitely seems like my version 9 just hates more than 2 people on ichat on the same network, or the unit was just plain buggy. Your faq really helped eliminate the things that weren't the cause of this odd behavior.

On the plus side, I now know more about the backend of iChat/AIM than I ever wanted to know, and things like that always come in handy once the next problem pops up.

thanks for all the help, now I can focus on something other than instant messenger.

Changing to ssl for ichat delayed the problem a bit, as did trashing the plist file. I'm leaning towards a buggy unit as my problem since none of the fixes really eliminated the problem.

Time to go exchange the unit for another and see how that goes.

Hi,

Do you have this SIP ALG item as well ?



I would turn that off as well.

You are not doing Port Forwarding AND UPnP at the same time are you ?



8:59 PM Friday; June 20, 2008

Dont remember seeing that on the v9 i gave to my sister.

That appeared after a firmware update to my DG834G



9:25 PM Friday; June 20, 2008