IChat crashing my internet connection?

Hi,
This is a pretty strange one. If I try to do an audio or a video chat, I get the typical "Failed to respond" message. More than that, though, my internet connection appears to break for about 45 seconds after this happens. I can't connect to any websites, Skype logs out, any downloads pause, etc. For whatever reason, trying to initiate an audio or video conference makes the internet connection stop working temporarily. Am I missing something?

A final chapter;
After some reading, I came upon this link " http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/page4.html#_text " and ... the white box part at the bottom of the page helped so very much ( Thank you ) . Now the MacBook Pro can audio and video chat with the Apple test sites you had noted. The thing is, now I can't see her being online from my PowerBook ( using iChat 2.x) while connected to the same router ( neither can she see me being online) . I really am not worried about this, since when travelling abroad, I would be connected to the internet through an airport wireless anyway (ie. we would be using two different routers for connecting to the internet, at least her router works for her side of the connection) . Do you think I could be reassure that when I am on the other side of the water ( USA ) I then could see her being signed on in my iChat . Thank you again for all your time and help.
PowerBook G3   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

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