Can't chat with PC, keep getting "did not respond"

I have a 17" MacBook Pro running OS 10.4 and I am tring to iChat with my brother in law. He has a PC with XP service pak 2 and the latest Triton Beta for AIM. If either of us invites we get the message that the other did not respond. We have DSL without firewalls. He's at 256K and I'm at 1024K. Any thoughts would be helpful! Thanks.

Hi Simon,
Welcome To The Apple Discussion Pages.
iChat 3.1 and above has an option to allow Multiple logins.
This has to selected if you wnat to log on from two computers (or two apps) with the same screen name.
This setting is found in iChat > Preferences > Accounts and selecting the AIm/@mac account in question and then the Account Information tab.
You can only change the setting when iChat is logged out of AIM.
It is also important with iChat 3 that the System Preferences > Quicktime > Streaming tab > Streaming speed drop down is set to match your download or to a max of 1.5meg if your connection speed is faster.
iChat should be restarted after this change.
11:18 PM Sunday; May 21, 2006

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