Ichat video - waiting for response

Question

Everytime I try to start a video chat on iChat, the partner I am trying to chat with will recieve my request, accept it, but iChat continues to say "waiting for a response". We can wait for 10 minutes and it still never connects. I don't have any firewalls running so I'm not sure what it could be, but it's very frustrating. Any ideas?
I also am running on iOS 5.0.1

Answer 1

Hi,
As you are using many apps and many of those will use port above the 1024 threshold I would suggest again strongly that you use UPnP rather than Port Forwarding.
However the IP you need to "point" the ports to is the IP your computer has.
Linksys devices don't have a way you making you keep the same IP without setting up Static routing.
If you leave the Linksys doing DHCP then the computer may not keep the  same IP (Particularly if it is shut down for longer then the lease time (normally 24 hours) )
Port Forwarding will limit access via the ports set to the one IP that gets listed.
UPnP will work for any IP (Computer) so it does not matter if the computer's IP changes if DHCP is left On.
Static Routing.
You need to turn Off DHCP here.  (no 2)
Then in System Preferences > Network > Advanced Button > TCP tab you need to select Manually in the IPV4 drop down.
Then you need to fill in the other boxes.
The IP can be any IP from 192.168.1.2 - 192.168.1.255
Then the Subnet Mask
Any DNS servers listed in the top part of the same page
And the Router IP (192.168.1.1)
Example of my current set up (Different IPs and also some device are using DHCP)
(Using Manual with DHCP allows some devices to use some DHCP reserved IP addresses)
NOTES
Skype does have a port (listed in it's Preferences) that can be different on each download you make.
If this is not open then Skype will circumvent any firewall (Normally why they are not open) and use either Mail or Web Browsing ports as a "Fall back" position.
Google tend to use a Web Browser anyway to do the Chatting.
ooVoo says this:-
    For a P2P video conversation, one of the clients should have port 443/TCP or 37674/TCP and UDP 10000-65000, UDP 5222 opened for incoming connections in the firewall (port 37674 can be changed from the ‘Connection’ tab of the ooVoo ‘Settings’ window).   
    In case the above ports are not opened or the video conversation includes more than 2 participants, the video conversation will be delivered via our video servers. In this case, no special incoming ports need to be opened.   
    To decrease delays and load on the network, we also recommend opening the ports detailed above for UDP connections (for incoming and outgoing connections).   
Using ports below the 1024 threshold and admitting that if will manage if not opened.
8:18 PM      Thursday; December 29, 2011
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