Errors & Declined: Loving My Mac But iChat Feels So "Windows"!

Every time my iChat partner (who's also on a Mac with built in iSight camera) tries to iChat me, there's the usual ambiguous "communication error", or if I initiate a iChat it's always that my invitation was "declined" (when in fact it wasn't). Very frustrating, as I'm sure most people in this forum would attest. I've noticed that when I restart my computer and we try to iChat again, it usually works. Why is this? I don't want to have to restart my computer every time we iChat.
Loving my Mac, but am pretty disgusted with iChat. It feels so Windows! Yecch! Any thoughts, suggestions out there? Thank you.
Greg

Hi,
Welcome to the  Discussions
The declined message sounds like the far end has some sort of protection active in their modem or router. The most common is DoS (Denial of Service) or SPI (Statful Packet Inspection) that cut the ports involved if it is "perceived" the network is under attack.
DoS works on the basis of Too much Data `Too Quickly" and iChat can be seen as this, particularly in Leopard as the Audio and Video data is now on one port.
The issue of rebooting makes it look like you have Port Forwarding set up and still using DHCP and your IP changed at some stage.
8:21 PM Wednesday; December 5, 2007

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