"computer can not initiate a multi-person video chat" ?

2 of us have MacBook Pros, third guy has new MacBook.
Our MacBook's have OS X 10.5.8,
The new MacBook has OS 10.6.1.
Me and the other person can iChat with 3 other ppl,
but when we added the new guy as a buddy, neither one of us could get him to come up.
He said When the call came in, two (2) video screens popped up and if he hit accept on
either one, it would decline on our end. (this happened no matter which MacBook Pro initiated the convo)
We then had the MacBook try to initiate the 3 way and it came up with an error that said
"computer can not initiate a multi-person video chat"
I've never even heard of that.
Is this a glitch, or a setting that needs to be changed?
Seems weird that the older models do it fine, but the new one is not configured right, but maybe we're missing something.
thx

Hi,
Welcome to the  Discussions
You are saying that, no matter who Hosts, when they invite the 10.6.1 Buddy he gets two Invite windows ?
This sounds like he is connected to the Internet twice.
On Sending the Visible Invite iChat does not check the validity of the Return Message.
You can be logged in twice for Text Chatting so it is not an uncommon state to exist.
However in most cases this is either two apps or two computers.
When iChat gets past the Visible Invite stage as only one reply get returned for the Acceptance it moves into sending a SIP invite separately on a different port and part of this Process is to confirm where the Visible Invite went to is where the SIP return data is coming from.
If there are two connections to the Internet at his end (and there are several causes) you will get an Error 7 showing when the Video chat is ended by all parties.
Error 7 = Remote IP Invalid
The Message you are getting may point to another problem and that is he is not on an Internet connection fast enough to join a 3 or 4 way Video chat.
He needs to have at least 384 kbps as an Upload and not capping the iChat Bandwidth below the 500kbps mark. (iChat Preferences > Video Section > Bandwidth Limit drop down)
9:17 PM Friday; January 29, 2010
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