IChat Video - Leopard=NO, Tiger=YES. HELP PLEASE!!!

hi there.
can anyone help?
iChat video messaging is being a right old pain!!!
On my MacBook (Leopard 10.5.2), no joy whatsover....just errors.
it is being totally ok on my MacMini G4 (Tiger 10.4.11).....no errors.
can anyone suggest a fix for my MacBook?
My MacMini is getting it's internet feed from the Ethernet socket on my Macbook, which in turn is getting it's internet via Airprt from the Netgear DG834GT router connected to Sky Broadband here in the UK.
Router and Sky are obviously fine if the Mini will video-conference ok.
this has to be a Leopard/MacBook issue.
any help with resolving this greatly appreciated.
Richie x

Monty1945 wrote:
I use it (iChat) from Mac to Mac
Which version Mac were you chatting with? Tiger or Leopard? I can chat all day with Tiger users from my Leopard machine. I fail 19 out of 20 times with another Leopard machine. I can boot into Tiger and it all magically works.
Some folks may need to port map, but I just use UPnP, as do most of the folks I VC with. I use a AEBS N and the Motorola Surfboard cable modem - nothing unusual or weird. Normal firewall stuff, as well.
All that is a waste of time unless you are running Tiger. If you can't get Tiger iChat to run, then you need look into network settings, modems, etc. On Tiger, I never had to adjust anything. No amount of tweaking will get Leopard iChat to talk to another Leopard. I know it isn't Leopard firewall or any other particular setting because it does work very rarely. Then it will fail 5 times in a row with the same settings that worked once after the first set of 9 failures.

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