Happy New Year!

BTW, AIM is much smarter than I thought. It automatically opens up ports on your firewall in order to connect to another person using AIM. However, this can be problematic if your router doesnt quite handle it well enough. Two days ago I was able to connect with video im to another person, but just yesterday, I noticed the open video option unavailable. In fact, it was totally missing from AIM.

After uninstalling/reinstalling AIM, drivers, etc. I decided to check my firewall. It turned out that the ports aim was using were not released properly and the AIM software upon start recognized that the ports were unavailable and thus disabled the feature. Neat actually. So I rebooted the router and restarted AIM and the option to use video im returned. Who knew AIM was firewall aware.

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