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I am using Mac OS X operating system and having some trouble with it. I have installed 'iChat' over this operating system for the Video Chat purpose. But thing is that I am not able to do the video chat with this 'iChat' even I have proper internet connection. I don't have any idea about how to resolve this iChat issue. If you knows any solution over this issue, then please share it me.
It sounds that you have not properly installed iChat application on your Mac OS X and only because of that you are facing problem while video chatting. If you want to resolve this iChat issue, then for that you will need to reinstall iChat application with fresh installation copy. Hopefully this will definitely resolve your iChat issue.
I am also one of you as getting identical issue with iChat Video Chat. Whenever I try to use this iChat Video Chat, I immediately get error message saying that 'failed to connect'. I am unable to resolve this error message. I also tried the reinstallation of this iChat, but it also wasn't helpful for me. Please provide proper solution over this.
Please follows below mentioned steps to resolve your ichat issue:
- First open the ichat and then click over the ‘preferences’.
- Then next step is to select ‘accounts’ from there and then select ‘server settings’.
- Then final step is to set port number as ’443’.
It appears that you don't have proper internet connection. To take advantage of video chat you should have internet connection with proper speed. So I suggest you that check your internet connection if it is properly working without any fluctuation or not. You also need to configure the setting of your ichat application.
Please go through the following solutions:
- Try to configure the ichat setting.
- Try reinstallation of your ichat.
- Make sure that your internet connection properly working.
Thanks friends for all your instant help. All above suggestions were very useful for me while resolving the the ichat problem. I first modified some setting of ichat but, it wasn't helpful. Then as per one of the above suggestion I reinstalled ichat with fresh copy. And it successfully solved all my issues related to ichat.