Ichat static issue

OK so I have been using ichat for a little over a year now and with me being in the Navy it is a great way to keep in touch with my wife and parents. I have an imac at home and a brand spankin new macbook. I talk with many different people through ichat but when i talk to my parents it does some weird things. They have the identical imac that i have but when we chat the audio comes and gos. It will work perfectly fine for like 5-10 min and then it will make like a popping sound and all i hear is static. Then it may or may not come back and forth with the static. Some days (if we are really really lucky) we get no static but then other days we get nothing but. Both of our imac's are running 10.4.11. My macbook is running leopard but and it keeps giving me that error 8 message i have read about in some of the other posts. It only gives me that error with my parents though, no one else. If anyone has any ideas please help!

Go to System Preferences > Quicktime > Streaming tab and se the speed to 1.5Mb on both computers
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