Hello,

I've been using iChat for a long time on my PowerBook, and I'm trying
to use it more often with a relative who's just switched from an older
iMac to a new iBook. Both of us have DSL connections (mine is typically
across AirPort, hers is usually hardwire Ethernet).

What I've never really found good info on, though, is the
relationship between portable "sleep", connected (Airport/Ethernet), and
status. So:

1) when I put my PowerBook to sleep, what do other see for my iChat
status?

2) if I want to make sure that iChat always tries to reconnect and make
me available to the AIM network when disconnected from the internet for
some reason, is there something I can do to make that happen more
reliably or as a rule?

Thanks!

Todd

F. Todd Wilson <fa382483[at]nospam.skynet.be> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been using iChat for a long time on my PowerBook, and I'm trying
> to use it more often with a relative who's just switched from an older
> iMac to a new iBook. Both of us have DSL connections (mine is typically
> across AirPort, hers is usually hardwire Ethernet).
>
> What I've never really found good info on, though, is the
> relationship between portable "sleep", connected (Airport/Ethernet), and
> status. So:
>
> 1) when I put my PowerBook to sleep, what do other see for my iChat
> status?

Offline.

> 2) if I want to make sure that iChat always tries to reconnect and make
> me available to the AIM network when disconnected from the internet for
> some reason, is there something I can do to make that happen more
> reliably or as a rule?

Not sure, iChat isn't sriptable but iChat AV is so maybe there's a small
applescript you can write to get it to do what you want.


Jim
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