ISight problem... works initially; then photo dissolves and sound slows too

I have a MacBook pro with built in camera; my daughter has an imac with iSight camera unit. We can do iChats via AIM, and used to have no trouble, but lately, the iChat runs for about one minute, at which point the picture I am seeing begins to deteriorate into squares, and slows down; I lose normal action and sound as well... although my daughter and granddaughter can still see and hear me. Any suggestions on solving this problem

Hi
First has your daughter set the Quicktime streaming setting, goto sys prefs/quicktime/streaming/streaming speed, set to 1.5mbps(dont use automatic)
In ichats prefs click on video and change bandwidth limit to 500.
Restart iChat.
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