[Macpartners] iChat client issues

[Kerem B Limon]

Is this behavior uniform across different network providers? If you're on an
off-campus ISP, for instance, that maybe does some sort of network throttling
or terminating idle connections (with iChat noticing and re-connecting as soon
as possible), it could be the reason. If not, another possibility is some
application that gets in the way on your machine itself.

Kerem


Quoting Stephani Roberts Lincoln <stephani at MIT.EDU>:

> Hi,
> 
> We're using iChat and AIM for speedy messaging within my project 
> group, and for the most part it's working out very well. However, 
> I've had a strange problem with my mac. When I step away from my 
> machine for more than say 10 minutes the app logs me in and out. This 
> is annoying to my "buddies" as they're prompted each time I log in 
> and out...looks like that's anywhere from 2 times a minute to every 3 
> - 20 minutes. This is log of my activity sent from a PC Buddy below.
> 
> 
> stephani525 signed off at 2:04:00 PM.
> stephani525 signed on at 2:34:27 PM.
> stephani525 signed off at 2:34:53 PM.
> stephani525 signed on at 2:41:06 PM.
> stephani525 signed off at 2:41:26 PM.
> stephani525 signed on at 2:43:50 PM.
> stephani525 signed off at 2:44:10 PM.
> stephani525 signed on at 2:47:13 PM.
> stephani525 signed off at 2:47:38 PM.
> stephani525 signed on at 2:50:37 PM.
> stephani525 signed off at 2:50:57 PM.
> stephani525 signed on at 2:54:12 PM.
> stephani525 signed off at 2:54:38 PM.
> stephani525 signed on at 2:57:04 PM.
> stephani525 signed off at 2:57:25 PM.
> stephani525 signed on at 2:59:04 PM.
> stephani525 signed off at 2:59:27 PM.
> stephani525 signed on at 3:02:32 PM.
> stephani525 signed off at 3:02:53 PM.
> stephani525 signed on at 3:05:33 PM.
> stephani525 signed off at 3:05:53 PM.
> stephani525 signed on at 3:08:20 PM.
> stephani525 signed off at 3:08:41 PM.
> (I quit the app)
> stephani525 signed on at 6:15:56 PM.
> 
> 
> My energy saver settings are set to put the computer to sleep when 
> it's inactive for ~12 minutes. My screen saver is set to start in 25 
> minutes.
> 
> If anyone has any ideas on how to solve this issue. Please let me 
> know. It's extremely inconvenient for me to quit the app every time I 
> walk away from my machine.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steph
> 
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> Stephani Roberts Lincoln
> Senior Information Designer
> MIT / IDD / IS&T
> 
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Kerem B. Limon
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