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Please do. It would be useful to know which clients you are using. Also, have you used the iPhone client?
This actually matches up – what you’re describing is when using applications that make use of the network, you stay connected, but when you switch to something which isn’t constantly sending traffic, you don’t.
You may want to take a look at your router’s settings and see if it has any connection timeouts built-in.Hi Bob,
It sounds like your computer is having connectivity problems and here’s why:
You are getting offline messages. If somebody tries to send an offline message while you are online, the message will be sent as a normal message and you would not see it as offline. So, at some point you are signing off. This matches Sally saying she saw you signed offed.
Messages missing in the middle indicate that your computer wasn’t connected but the AIM servers thought you were. If your computer is getting disconnected, it will take the servers a minute or two to notice and similarly your client won’t realize it has to reconnect until a similar amount of time. So, the messages sent by Sally during that period of time will be sent as normal online messages since you appear to be online, but your client will never get them because you are not connected.
Now the question is what is taking your connection offline. You might try running a different program to maintain a constant connection to some server to see if it’s just AIM, but usually this happens when the entire computer is having intermittent connectivity.
Pat, I guess you haven’t used AIM for a while. The versions since 2006 have had logging built-in.
Starfire, which version of AIM are you running? If AIM Lite, the logs should by default be in My DocumentsAIM Logs
If AIM 6+, it would be My DocumentsAIMLogger
You can check the Settings Menu to see if they’re being stored somewhere else.
Note that it’s still possible for logging to be done at other levels. You can stop some of these by using the latest version of AIM which connects with encryption by default.Hi Steven,
I’m not sure anybody here is particularly familiar with Applesauce. You’d probably have the best luck asking them/their website.
I’ve seen people do this to have a video feed while traveling.
If you have an account logged in with AIM running on a given screenname and setup to automatically accept video requests from a screenname security uses, then security just has to make a request and they can view the webcam’s output.
Note that this doesn’t work so well if somebody pulls the plug on the computer and it gets turned off.I’m surprised they left that out given that the AIM equivalent which came out back in July had that feature.
What happens if you don’t leave Pidgin logged in? Also, it is possible the computer in your office cuts the connection off if it goes idle, which causes your client to reconnect automatically and then display this message again.
