Ichat dropping out issue with Broadband Tuner?

All,
I posted before when I was having this issue and Ralph suggested that since I had a FIOS connection and OS 10.3 I limit my bandwith to 100 in video preferences. That fix works(thanks Ralph), although my image is not as crisp.
Now I have 10.5.2 and downloaded the Broadband Tuner. Still have issue with Ichat just breaking down (running connection doctor show audio and video dropping off). I was wondering if I maybe need to do something else besides just install the Tuner? It came up with a successful install, but it seems like it is doing nothing?
Any help would be appreciated.
Jon

Hi Jon,
I see it says not for Airports at the bottom
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/broadbandtuner10.html
I don't know if this effect you.
I am not sure where to look on a Mac to find out if it is working or not.
I would recheck the Bandwidth option in iChat to see which works best for your try anything up to 500kbps.
Do you know if your Connection speed is varying greatly ?
This is the normal issue with FiOS.
9:59 PM Tuesday; March 4, 2008
Message was edited by: Ralph Johns (UK)

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