Mbps over Ethernet or Airport?

I have some questions for opions for discussion...
1) QUESTION: How much do the Mbps play a role is successful video conferencing, and what is the technical advantage to iChating over airport or ethernet?
note: using routers with out-of-the-box settings, dhcp, no special ports opened, no virtual servers abled...
2) QUESTION: Is iChatAV designed to work for a set up with one (or both) users hard-wired through the WLAN ports on their router on a small, fastrunning network?
3) CHALLENGE: Why can't I get two employees to connect (once invitation is accpeted) with iSight cameras if one is in "the office" on a network, and the other is "in the field" on a hotel's or T-mobile signal, getting the mad 802.1b 54Mbps - ESPECIALLY when both CAN successfuly have video conference with other users, (at different locations) just not with each other diretly? I'm baffled....
thanks
jake
Pbook G4 15" Aluminum, iBook 14" 1GHz, Tbook 700MHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi bluecool,
Re 1:
Yes but anything over the Steaming cap of 1.5meg is immaterial
This is set in System Preferences > Quicktime >Streaming tab as the Automatic and LAN/Intranet settings return unhelpful settings to iChat.
Re 2:
iChat will work wired or wireless.
Top speed see 1)
Re 3:
Most likely this is that the Hotel service does not have the ports open for iChat.
A secondary concern might be a shared Wireless connection in a foyer which has lots of people using the Bandwidth
This does presume that the Quicktime and iChat Bandwidth limits are set to the optimum.
11:18 PM Tuesday; June 27, 2006

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