After installing Mavericks Facetime and skype video calls are terrible

Hi,
I just got my GF to buy herself a Macbook air. I myself got a Macbook Pro, and we were talking on facetime no problem what so ever. The stream was flawless, splendid infact! But then it happend, I saw that there was a new OSX available. Right away I said to my GF that there was a new update. And we should upgrade ASAP, to see the new features and what not. Going to be great I said. Never have I been more wrong. We continued facetiming troughout the download fase. And was not having any issues. But when we initiated the installation and after the reboot and the "amazing" mavericks OSX was installed. I called her back to continue the conversation. It was a complete disaster, she could only hear a few words of what I was saying. sometimes I got a hole sentence through without beeing broken off. Never lost the conection, just falling in and out. Tried calling with the new just talk feature without any luck.
How can it be that something that was working perfectly, no is completly broken. I tried using skype instead, even with worse videoquality the conversations were a nightmare. So my final solution was! Relogging with bootcamp, and logged on windows 7. poped up skype, and it ran FLAWLESSLY for HOURS. no interuptions what so ever.
So what I'm asking. I want to go back to facetime, and that lovely video quality that you offer. Has anyone experienced the same issue, and found a fix for this if I may say embarresing problem. This shouldn't be a issue at all. Not when it was working flawlessly before.
Have allready tried rebooting and pressing "cmd" + "r" and doing a reinstall of Mavericks, did not do me any good.
I do appreciate all the help I can get. I'm desperate!
Regards
Desperate facetime user whos been forced to use windows and skype

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Did you delete the com.apple.imessages.bag.plist and com.apple.imservice.imessages.plist ?
I would also try deleting com.apple.imagent.plist as this is used by both FaceTime and iMessages.
If none of those work I would open Keychain Access in Applications/Utilities and use the Repair Keychain in the App Menu.
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