IChat 4 incoming video blurry / fuzzy / out of focus

I am having an issue with iChat video that I cannot seem to find an answer to.
The outgoing video from my computer is clear to me and the user on the other end, the incoming video is clear to the other user, but unclear to me.  I am having any connection or sound issues, the problem is simply the incoming video is out of focus.
I have try all the different settings of the Bandwidth limit, but it has produced no change.  I have adjusted the streaming video settings in quicktime, but that also did not produce any difference.
I am on a wireless, and the other user is on a wired connection.
I am at a loss..if my outgoing video is clear to the other user, but my incoming video is fuzzy...then it can't be the internet connection.  The only explanation that I can come up with is that it would be due to the settings on my computer, however there really are not any settings...so I don't know what to do.
I have a newer macbook: 2.2 ghz intel core 2 duo with 4 gb of ram.
I am chatting with someone that has an iMac with 2gb of RAM but almost the same processor speed.
Any ideas will be most appreciated.

Hi,
What Road Runner and Comcast do is play with the Data stream rate in a effort to stop people using Peer-to-Peer file sharing apps.
They do this by slowing things to a speed the makes them virtually unusable.
But it effects other people that have more legitimate reasons for streaming large amount of data in a constant fashion.
Setting the Speed in Quickitme may help.
It does seem though that people have better success if that set Quickitme as High as is it can be (The LAN /Intranet setting does not work for iChat 3 in Tiger so we tend to say 1.5Mbps to everybody)
Then in iChat use the Bandwidth Limit in the Video section of the iChat Preferences to cap the speed there to try and stabilise what you are getting.
As the figure he is getting is between two of the setting try the 200kbps one. this should be fast enough for a 1-1 Video chat and stop him bumping into the Max speed that is possible.
I am not sure where this case is up to at the moment
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6583773.html
More http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10000821-38.html
Many ISPs have what they call a "Fair Use Policy" which in many imply that at busy times they may not be able to maintain the speeds advertised.
I know of one Comcast customer who regularly reboots her modem on the basis that if she looks like a new customer it seems to happen less. I have no further info as to whether this works or she just happens to live in an area that is less effected by this issue.
7:49 PM Monday; August 11, 2008

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