I can video chat with John, John with Mike, but not Mike with me?

My brother lives in Abu Dhabi and he and I can video chat. He can also video chat with my dad (Mike) who lives about 500 yards from me (in North London). But I can't video chat with my dad, nor can we audio chat!
We've both attempted to initiate the chat and get the error code "-8", upon clicking 'accept' the other party gets a message that the invite has been refused.
Can anyone offer any suggestions as to how I can go about getting this resolved? I'd like to get to the stage when all three of us can video chat at once.
Thanks for any advice.

Hi
First have you all set the Quicktime streaming setting, goto sys prefs/quicktime/streaming/streaming speed, set to 1.5mbps
In ichats prefs click on video and change bandwidth limit to none.
Restart iChat.
And also try logging on to AIM on port 443 rather than port 5190.
Go to IChat in the menu bar > Preferences > Accounts.
Log out of AIM and then use the Server Settings tab
Set the port to 443.
Log back in again.
Tony

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