Imac intel and Airport etreme

I have a dual core imac and am running a thomson speedtouch router. My ichat video has never worked and the nice bloke at apple in India tells me that I need an airport extreme for it to work. If I buy one, do i plug it into the speedtouch or do i throw it away and just use the extreme..?
Thanks

You shouldn't have to acquire an additional router, like the AirPort Extreme Base Station. Most likely your existing Thomson router should be able to have it's ports configured to allow for iChat sessions. The following Apple Article shows which ports are necessary for iChat.

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