IChat won't work at home

When I'm at school my iChat works perfectly. However, every time I try to connect at home it either lets me log in yet none of my contacts show up or won't connect at all.
I have iChat 4.0.2, my home connection is high speed wireless while at school I use an ethernet cord. Any ideas?
In layman's terms please!!

Hi,
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When you are at School and look in System Preferences > Network at the settings for Ethernet - how does it say it is getting an IP from the School network ?
When you are at home what does the System Preferences > Network Airport Card > Advanced button > TCP/IP tab say ?
IS system Preferences > Quicktime ? Streaming tab set at 1.5Mbps ?
Are you getting any messages ?
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