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Historical Document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 In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.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

Modem and Routers

iChat In Pictures >≫ You are in Folder 8_Modem:Router and it's Sub folder >> Thomson Alcatel Modem

Thomson-Alcatel in Pictures

These are the Pictures for a Thomson Alcatel Modem.
This one has UPnP as Port Forwarding. It is worth looking at the differences with the Linksys Router to get an idea of what these pictures are trying to get you to do.
Click on a picture to enlarge. There are then Navigation buttons to scroll through all the Pictures in this section.

This set of three pictures are mainly to show the differences between this and the Linksys pages. I hope that from between the two sets you might fathom your own device(s) better.

1 Modem NAPT

2 Modem UPnP

3 Modem DHCP

These are the Pictures for a Thomson Alcatel Modem.

This device has UPnP as Port Forwarding. It is worth looking at the differences with the Linksys Router to get an idea of what these pictures are trying to get you to do.

Click on a picture to enlarge. There are then Navigation buttons to scroll through all the Pictures in this section.

This device is or rather was a Modem that could route. This meant it issued IPs to the LAN side and used DHCP to do so (See the last pic to Turn it Off). The model was a Speedtouch 510v4 running version 4 firmware. I mention this as this device had another issue that is dealt with on page 4a

This device did not have Port Triggering (or any other of the names it goes under) so there is only Port Forwarding (called NAPT here) and UPnP to show you apart from the DHCP page.

Next:- Thompson-ALcatel NAPT Settings

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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Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document.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.

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About This Page

The Index page for the Thomson-Alcatel Speedtouch modem. The pictures are a bit old as this device was running version 4 firmware and they are now up to Version 7 in the newest devices and updates for older ones.

As I have said before though the main purpose of these two sets of pictures is comparison so that you can transpose the info to your own device.

Compatibility

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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.