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Historical Document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 In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.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.

Network Settings

iChat In Pictures >> You are in Folder 7_System_Prefs-Network >> Page: List of Networks

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2 iChat Network Preference List

02-10-2006

After you Select Network you should see something like this in Panther and Tiger. If you have an Airport Card, or internal Modem, or Firewire to another Mac or even BlueTooth these will be listed as well in the list under the Drop downs. i.e. it coud show multiple Networks if they are Active. (Later OS version show potentials as well even if not used).

You can see that there are two drop downs. The first is mainly for when you move your Mac about between different Networks (locations) for which you can change the settings and store different settings for those different physical locations.

What we are concerned about here is looking at the actual settings that are controlled in the second drop down.

Next:- 2nd Drop Down Selected

Upward Arrow saying Top Top of page

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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Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document.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 second picture in this Series. This shows the List of the Networks your Mac has. (mine only had the Ethernet active at the time)

Later OS versions show Active (Green) and non Active networks (Red)

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.