IChat 4.0 on leopard freezes after about 5 seconds

I have a 24'' iMac and my wife has a 13'' macbook. We both have the most updated version of leopard on our computers. The problem is that whenever we try to do a video chat with each other, my video freezes up after about 5 seconds, and hers keeps going. We both have set our bandwidth limit to none in ichat and the streaming speed in System prefs> Quicktime to 1.5 Mbps. Anyone know what else could cause this? Thanks

A "Crash" of an application is a Specific thing where you get an Error message saying it "Unexpectantly Quit" and a Log in the relevant Crash Error logs in Console. The marker underneath the app in the DOCK would also disappear.
An App that Freezes or part of the display of it Freezes would not normally be considered as to have Crashed.
Having said that I have had a repeatable issue where a Tester with me could definitely Crash my iChat. Sure enough each time he tried to call my iChat Unexpectantly Quit.
It turned out it was a faulty router at his end.
The Video freezing is normally a Bandwidth Issue (the 363k is fast enough tht this should not happen based on those speeds or the ones you tested)
It can be down to how busy the Processor is with on-line Widgets like Weather and Clock and others. or Background apps and Utilities
The way to see those is to open the Activity Monitor.
7:35 PM Thursday; February 14, 2008

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