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Historical Document

These pages have sat here since 2008 with no update. In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

I will make attempts to renew and refresh Links to either the most current site or use the Way Back Machine Archive so that people can at least look at what was used. I will make Edit Notes on this and on those where I can find no link to replace the older one as I go through the document.

iChat Windows

iChat In Pictures >> Your are in Folder 4_iChat Windows >> Page: Connection Doctor

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14 Connection Doctor

19-10-2008

This is the front Screen of the Connection Doctor. It tends to always display the Statistics first. It is accessed from the Video (or Audio) menu to the right of Buddies in the Menu bar. The Drop down or tabs you have will also display the Error messages (or at least a shortened form of them after 10.4.7).

Anyway, the Statistics. You are the "Local" info. It shows your Bitrate and Framerate if you are in a Video chat.

Your Buddy will be the lower set of Info including the visual guide to what they are sending you. If their incoming feed starts to drop off in quality the bars will drop and change colour - first yellow and ending at red before showing nothing if they send nothing. If they send nothing for 10 Secs you will get the 10 Sec Error message and it will be reported in the Errors part of the drop down.

In the Errors tab iChat will store the Messages for that opening of iChat. The oldest will be at the top and the newest should be the lowest and the list if their are lots should be pre-scrolled to display it.

Later versions also add the option of looking at your Own Capabilities.

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© 2005 Ralph Johns: Edited 24/9/2005, 5/5/2006
Updated September 2006
Updated October 2008. Reviewed and Updated to HTML 5 October 2024

Information Block

This site is about iChat from Version 1 through to iChat 5.x.x
Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document. Some small tense changes have been made but the content is by and large untouched.

It has a mixture of basic info and problem solving help.

The sections below will change for Specifics about info on the page on view

Options to This Page

To the right you can resize or colour the page as well as choose one of three Fonts.

About This Page

The Connection Doctor. Basically a visual representation of the Connection data rather than a place to change settings.

Also has an Errors tab or drop down option that shows shortned messages.

Compatibility

Much of this page has been altered to be as HTML 5 compatible as possible. This may cause issues with any of the Browser below.

I have tested in Safari 18.1, Firefox 130.x and 131.0, Vivaldi 6.9.3447.48 and iCab 6.2.3 (All Mac Browsers) I don't have access to a PC let alone multiple browsers to test on.

Previously confirmed to work with Win/IE 5.5 and later (should work in 5.0, but not confirmed), Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, iCab 3.02 and later, Mac/IE 5, Netscape 6 and later

Old browsers (IE version 4 or earlier, Netscape 4 or earlier) may only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.