Messages connection error

HI,

This error occurs when the connection is cut by something outside or iChat/Messages control.

This could be a dropped WiFi signal between one of the computers and the router at that end.

It could be a interruption with the services from the Internet Provider.

The 500kbps limit can help if the Internet Connection varies a great deal in speed.

It can also help with those ISPs that slow the connection thinking Peer-to-Peer File sharing is going on.

A video chat is essentially Peer-to-Peer (when not using the AIM option to relay through their servers) and it seems most ISPs don't check further. The 500kbops seems to "be under the radar" in these cases.

If the issue is happening regularly and appears to be around 15 minutes (Depending when you start the chat) it would seem that something regular is happening on the network (The LAN at one end) that is cutting the amount of Bandwidth that the Video chat can access.

In some cases the issue can be caused by a slow(er) processor getting caught up doing something at one end.

iChat was designed to allow other apps to access the processor first.

This couples with a heavy download of new Mail or the constant refreshing of a data intensive web page can be the cause.

On this front one cause can be Time Machine trying to start a Backup

9:08 PM Monday; November 19, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Hi,

If you and your Buddy are getting the same message then the time data may provide a clue.

Your error log was timed at 15.58 and 38 seconds.

The end that got the message first is like to be the OK end.

However it is not always that clear cut.

Some people get this message before seeing and Video or hearing their Buddy.

In these cases it means they were connected but almost immediately something broke the connection.

In these cases the person with the first messages should look to their router and "protection" features.

Namely they should turn Off DoS (Denial of Service) or SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection)

The first is Threshold Based that iChat video can exceed. The second relies on the router's processor which cannot keep up in Video chats. (At a certain point it gives up and cuts the one por the data is on.)

9:33 PM Tuesday; November 20, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

For the Points

8:50 PM Wednesday; November 21, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously