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post #1 of 7
7/18/05 at 1:25pm
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I have a question about ichat. I have 56k (thre is no other choice in my area) and i have to run aol to sign online. I put my away message up cause i hate aol but when i try to run ichat it wont let me because it says that there is already another connection on the IP address. I can sign onto aim no problem but aim for mac sorta sucks, cant talk and its a pain to put up away message. Is there any way to bypass this connection thing or will ichat just not work?
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post #2 of 7
7/20/05 at 12:20am
Although I've never used 56k with a Mac before I would try this.

Get the number from AOL, and then just try to connect to it via Internet Connect.app, your username and password if you need one would be your screen name and password for AOL.

Then try to sign onto iChat. You might also want to look at Adium (http://www.adiumx.com/), and see if that works even with AOL.

Final thought, check to make sure youre using a different screen name.
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post #3 of 7
7/20/05 at 12:51am
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good advice man. I had just downloaded adium this morning right before i read this and it is definitly better than aim.
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post #4 of 7
7/20/05 at 2:10am
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Originally Posted by b33faroni
good advice man. I had just downloaded adium this morning right before i read this and it is definitly better than aim.
Lots of things are better than mAIM I havent tried Adium since around the first or second Beta release, so its been a while. Lots seem to like it more than iChat so i might give it a whirl.

Let me know if you get iChat working though, I'd love to see if my blind advice worked!
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post #5 of 7
7/20/05 at 12:50pm
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heh thats what i tried to do when i first got my powerbook (to sign online using internet connect instead of horrible aol) but it disconnected me everytime. I guess it has to be dialed in by aol or it rejects the attempt. Id love to find a way to get around having to use the aol prog but I dont think its going to happen. Im getting a router and routing internet from my dell to my apple (yes i know..56k lol) so maybe thatll have me auto signed in without aol. Only time will tell I guess. Thanks for the advice
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post #6 of 7
7/20/05 at 1:14pm
If you want to keep AOL you have to use AOL. If you don't mind ditching AOL you can get online through Earthlink or NetZero, etc.
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post #7 of 7
7/20/05 at 5:30pm
yes, just because you are on dialup, no need to stick with AOL, simpy put, they suck.

secondly, why the hell would you want to use ichat? i tried it once....eww, so what i did is just downloaded Fire, so much easier
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