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audio iChat using dial-up to high-speed?

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hikeNM

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Somewhere close to a dairy in East Texas
Howdy all,

Here's my situation. I live in the boonies. So, I'm still using dial-up for internet. Is it possible to have an audio chat using iChat if the other user isn't using dial-up? Every time I try, I get a connection failed message telling me to go to the Connection Doctor.

Are there any settings I can change to make it connect, or am I SOL if I want to talk to my high-speed buddies?

Thanks,
Ron
 
I've had an audio chat with a friend who was on dial-up and I'm on DSL. It was using iChat in Panther on both machines, my PowerBook and his iBook. Worked just fine. I know that doesn't help much, but I'm just letting you know that it is possible.
 
mduser63 said:
I've had an audio chat with a friend who was on dial-up and I'm on DSL. It was using iChat in Panther on both machines, my PowerBook and his iBook. Worked just fine. I know that doesn't help much, but I'm just letting you know that it is possible.
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Well, it might help. That tells me that it's something I'm doing then.

I am using an AirPort here at home. Does anybody think that would affect this?

Are there any preferences that might need to be changed?
 
hikeNM said:
Howdy all,

Here's my situation. I live in the boonies. So, I'm still using dial-up for internet. Is it possible to have an audio chat using iChat if the other user isn't using dial-up? Every time I try, I get a connection failed message telling me to go to the Connection Doctor.

Are there any settings I can change to make it connect, or am I SOL if I want to talk to my high-speed buddies?

Thanks,
Ron
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From what I understood, it wasn't possible with dial-up (however, mduser63 proved this wrong). How fast is your dial-up connection?
 
hikeNM said:
It fairly fast for dial-up.

It works great from dial-up to dial-up. But no other connection combination.

Interesting.
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Sorry, don't think I can help. It is probably some preference somewhere. I would say to call Apple but they would probably blame it on the slow connection, but it may be worth a try.
 
Oops! Sorry, I failed to see the word "audio" I just saw iChat and assumed Video. You should be able to do audio, I did it many times before I got High Speed. (Only I used AIM, not iChat, don't know if that makes a difference.)
If you have Apple Care still, give them a call , that's why they are there.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
 
EricNau said:
Oops! Sorry, I failed to see the word "audio" I just saw iChat and assumed Video. You should be able to do audio, I did it many times before I got High Speed. (Only I used AIM, not iChat, don't know if that makes a difference.)
If you have Apple Care still, give them a call , that's why they are there.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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Don't have AppleCare, so that's out.

The plot thickens.

Within iChat preferences, I can click on video and limit the bandwidth. Would that help anything? It's set on 100 Kbps at the moment.
 
hikeNM said:
Within iChat preferences, I can click on video and limit the bandwidth. Would that help anything? It's set on 100 Kbps at the moment.
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That shouldn't be an issue, the bandwidth required for audio is much less than required for video, so these settings should be irrelevant. When I was just using audio chats I wasn't even aware there was such a setting! Basically, an audio chat at 100% quality will not be a problem on dial-up. Used to use it all the time...
 
telecomm said:
That shouldn't be an issue, the bandwidth required for audio is much less than required for video, so these settings should be irrelevant. When I was just using audio chats I wasn't even aware there was such a setting! Basically, an audio chat at 100% quality will not be a problem on dial-up. Used to use it all the time...
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Would a firewall affect this?
 
Hmmm... I don't remember having to open any ports on the built-in firewall, but, to be honest, I might not have been running it back then... it's been a while since I've been on a dialup connection. I'm pretty sure, though, that no ports had to be opened.

On the other hand, I do remember seeing some apple documentation about the relevant ports to open—you could give that a try.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93208
 
hikeNM said:
Well, it might help. That tells me that it's something I'm doing then.

I am using an AirPort here at home. Does anybody think that would affect this?

Are there any preferences that might need to be changed?
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Not much to add, but I just wanted to mention that I was using a wireless connection the internet when I used iChat for audio. Not using an Airport Express, as we've got an Actiontec combination DSL modem/wireless router. My friend was on a standard dial up connection on his iBook. I don't remember having to do anything special with the firewall or anything to get it to work.
 
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