Losing sound after a few minutes

When using iChat for audio chats (or when using Skype), I lose sound after a few minutes. The person I'm talking too starts hearing the same thing in a repeating loop, and we have no cut off. At that point, it sometimes works to start a now voice chat, but sometimes it doesn't.
This seems to have started when I replaced an ailing snow ABS with a D-Link DSL-G604T wireless router. I've read a lot of posts here that talk about the need to turn on port forwarding, but that doesn't seem to be the problem - I can start talking, sometimes for as much as a half hour, but at some point the connection goes bad. (I thought it was just my iMac, so I tried my iBook with the same results. Then I thought it was my headset, so I tried my iSight - same thing happened.)
I'm convinced it has something to do with the router, but can't figure out exactly what's going on. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi Kirk,
Does the Buddy List close up and say it is Disconnected ?
Is the connection 1.6meg in both directions ?
What have you got System Preferences > Quicktime > Streaming speed set to ?
Also how are you opening the ports in the D-Link ?
These pics suggest it has UPnP
http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Dlink/DSL-G604T/iChat.htm
3:16 PM Thursday; May 18, 2006

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