[Macpartners] iChat client issues

[Stephani Roberts Lincoln]

This is on my desktop machine, so I haven't used it off campus. I 
don't know of any other applications I'm using that would be getting 
in the way, but I'll do some tests when I have time and see if that's 
an issue.

thanks,
-s

At 8:02 PM -0500 11/9/04, Kerem B Limon wrote:
>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
>>
>>  --
>>  Stephani Roberts Lincoln
>>  Senior Information Designer
>>  MIT / IDD / IS&T
>>
>>  --
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>>  phone: 253.0866
>>  email: stephani at mit.edu
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>
>
>Kerem B. Limon
>kerem.limon at mit.edu /e-mail