Ichat won't login to aim account

I have snow leopard. and ichat was working fine. then my router died so I bought a new on a netgear wnr3500v2. everthing works great, except ichat. I can use aim software to see aim buddies, but when I try to use ichat to see aim buddies, I get disconnect error.
I replaced netgear router with a linksys router and the problem went away.
I tried all of the suggestions posting at netgear, and other websites before buying a new router, and I called netgear, who stated that it was a aim issue.
so my advice is avoid netgear routers if you use ichat.

Hi,
Welcome to the    Discussions
Netgears on the whole come with UPnP turned On so that the iChat Login on port 5190 would normally work.
(AIM uses fall back ports to get around firewall setting using Mail and Web Browsing ports if port 5190 is not open)
Not all Netgears though have UPnP enabled and this may have been the issue.
There about two models that have difficultly with iChat Audio Only and Video Chats but this can depend on which version of those model you have.
Having had a Netgear DG834G and knowing other people who post regularly in the iChat Forums have also had various Netgears I would have a different view to yours.
3:07 PM Saturday; February 20, 2010
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