Can't audio chat with aim user

I just bought an isight and i have been trying to audio/video chat with an AIM user who is using AIM5.9 not triton and i am using ichat2.1. We can get the video to work but we can get the audio to work. Any suggestions on what to do?
ibook g4 1Hz   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Hi jd50,
Welcome To The Apple Discussion Pages.
This is normally due to the Video quality at the PC end being too high and taking all the bandwidth.
Start a Video chat
You open the Connection Doctor at your end (in the Video menu)
They then pull the preview tab (behind the incomming video) to the front.
To the right now should be a small icon which they should clck.
This brings up a slider.
They should move the slider to the left - slowly
You should see their framerate and Bit rate go up
At somepoint - if there is enough adjustment - you should get sound as well.
Balance as required between pic quality and sound
9:08 PM Saturday; February 25, 2006

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