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iChat video chatting NOT worked consistently for WEEKS...seems like 10.4.8

ichat video chatting used to work consistently for me with multiple other uses running multiple versions of mac OS X.

I can't be 100% sure, but it seems as if ever since I did the 10.4.8 upgrade, that nothing is working consistently anymore with video chat...

I have to jump through hoops to get it to work. I try different computers in my house to video chat w/ my dad...reboot into different versions of the OS like 10.4.2, then try to go back to 10.4.8, etc etc

bottom line, it works like 2% of the time in 10.4.8 w/ people who have NOT changed anything else about their routers/connections/configuraions.

this is annoying me to no end. what got broken here? yahoo messenger works just fine for video with the same isights (but no audio support yet)

I have tried every combination of bandwidth limit and even changed my quicktime streaming settings to 1.5 in my system preferences

does anybody know what the **** is going on? did 10.4.8 break ichat video?

COMPLETELY INTERMITTENT.....BARELY WORKING!!! it just hangs there saying waiting to accept or says starting and doesn't start....doesn't even give me error messages, just hangs

G5 Dual 2 Ghz, Mac OS X (10.4.8), isight

Posted on Jan 17, 2007 3:56 PM

25 replies

Jan 20, 2007 8:41 AM in response to merrickb

Yes

4:40 PM Saturday; January 20, 2007

merrickb

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Jan 20, 2007 8:55 AM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

Thanks, will do this and report my results. BTW, the direct link to the intel mac combo is:

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx1048comboupdateintel.html

the regular 10.4.8 is 206MB (for intel), the combo is 294MB.

Any idea what got broken with the incremental 10.4.8 update?

Jan 20, 2007 9:24 AM in response to merrickb

Hi,

It is or has been a feature that sometimes a minor change that does not eefect the day to day running of your OS does not get updated with the delta version through Software Update.

Running the Combo makes sure you have everything from 10.4 to the present and nothing gets missed.

5:23 PM Saturday; January 20, 2007

merrickb

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Jan 20, 2007 10:06 AM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

Nope, no change at all. Updated both. Tried with various QT speed settings (including the 1.5 you suggest). Tried with and without firewall (firewall has all the proper ports open).

-8 error.

#$%@!%$#@%$!$#@!#@!!#$^$^!

Ahem.

back to the drawing board.

Jan 20, 2007 10:11 AM in response to merrickb

What connection speeds are you getting through this Roof top device ?

Do they change if you test just after sampling a iTunes Store music sample ?

6:10 PM Saturday; January 20, 2007

merrickb

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Jan 20, 2007 10:34 AM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

It's 802.11 with an amplifier and directional antenna. It's a megabit down, 256k up. Doesn't change with iTunes, just checked.

I don't think my upload is capped at 256, but we have a snowstorm right now, and I don't has the same amplifier as the server side, so it's a bit flakey with 11 miles of weather in between here and there.

Jan 20, 2007 10:43 AM in response to merrickb

Do they offer a phone service, specifically a VoIP service over this connection ?

6:42 PM Saturday; January 20, 2007

merrickb

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Jan 20, 2007 10:45 AM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

Not that I am aware of, I will have to call and ask. I just took the iMac downstairs, and plugged it straight into the antenna, bypassing even my hub. Same thing.

iChat and sightspeed don't work, even with firewall off. Sightspeed claims it is a firewall blocking it, too. I guess that puts it at the other end, since when they checked my radio while I was talking to them, no ports are restricted at all.

I'm planning on switching to DSL now that there is a new CO up here anyway, maybe that will improve things.

Jan 20, 2007 10:56 AM in response to merrickb

Ok,

6:55 PM Saturday; January 20, 2007

Sep 7, 2008 4:50 PM in response to David Lawrence4

I'll never know for certain if there was some kind of server problem causing all of this, but months later, everything seems to be functioning again.

It could be that so many people are now on 10.5, but at least I'm not having this kind of trouble anymore.

iChat video chatting NOT worked consistently for WEEKS...seems like 10.4.8