AIM transport for PSI/Google Talk

[akbreezo]

I've read all of the documents on loading AIM through PSI and then using Google Talk, but I am having serious difficulty getting AIM to connect via PSI.
Every time I try to logon via the transporter, I get a message stating that my user name and/or password failed. I know I have correctly entered both.
Any thoughts?!

[jesusfreakrkg]

I too had this problem the day I was trying to configure GTalk...

if you listen to the most recent Big Blue Ball podcast, the guys mention that the transporter that was used in the instructions on how to set up PSI and GTalk was overloaded and had to be shut down to those without a Jabber ID.

You can (as I did) search around for different transporters @ http://www.jabber.org/network/oldnetwork.shtml#geeks

My advice? Don't even mess with it. It is a very buggy hack and more of a headache than not. Once AIM and GTalk can actually communicate that will be a sweet sweet day! I LOVE how you can set up GTalk's interface to be bubble-ish like iChat (but alas I have a PC) but the set up is very iffy. You end up signing up for multiple transports for multiple AIM or MSN accounts... and then you have many duplicates in your contact list under different transporters. It truly is a headache...

I'd suggest going with GAIM, Trillian, or AIM Adhack.

[jdelectro]

Originally Posted by jesusfreakrkg

I too had this problem the day I was trying to configure GTalk...

if you listen to the most recent Big Blue Ball podcast, the guys mention that the transporter that was used in the instructions on how to set up PSI and GTalk was overloaded and had to be shut down to those without a Jabber ID.

You can (as I did) search around for different transporters @ http://www.jabber.org/network/oldnetwork.shtml#geeks

My advice? Don't even mess with it. It is a very buggy hack and more of a headache than not. Once AIM and GTalk can actually communicate that will be a sweet sweet day! I LOVE how you can set up GTalk's interface to be bubble-ish like iChat (but alas I have a PC) but the set up is very iffy. You end up signing up for multiple transports for multiple AIM or MSN accounts... and then you have many duplicates in your contact list under different transporters. It truly is a headache...

I'd suggest going with GAIM, Trillian, or AIM Adhack.

The problem is just to find a good jabber server... but there are a lot of good ones! try several of them. I use jabber.no and aszlig.net. Register as many accounts as you want!

And about removing duplicate contacts! forget Gtalk for doing that! Seriously nobody should get into the torture of deleting 100 contacts one by one on your gtalk roster!!

Log into your gmail account, and click Contacts. Then do a search using the transport´s name wich is being used by the duplicate contacts. There you go! just click select all in the lower part of the page, and delete them. Changes are also happily shown in gtalk contact list!

I know i explained it well. but i was just bored and did this for you
Sorry for the spanish language setting! wasn´t bored enough to switch it and change it back