Mixed resukts with AIM

I am trying to set up video chat with two PC users
One has an AOL account and if he intiates a video chat we connect fine, but if I ask for a video chat then he gets a message "behind different firewalls" and I get a failed to respond message with me as the failure.
The other user can't get a video chat either way with alternate messages of either of us failing to respond.
I have a friend on a Mac and we can talk/view fine.
So can I assume that my setup is OK
Is it all down to the pc users?
I have enabled ports in OSX firewalls and allowed all UDP and TCP in my router.
Aim 5.9 on other PC I believe I can vouch for one but not the other.
Any ideas?
Many thanks

Hi David:
You mention that if you initate the conference to the windows user that you get the failed to repond. That is likely a cause of the router or firewall settings on the windows machine, thus not being able to connect.
Check out this sight: http://www.mvldesign.com/videoconferencetutorial.html for some great tips for windows users (it's towards the bottom)
As far as the other user, you need to confirm he has AIM 5.9, not tritan as tritan is not capable of doing video as of yet with iChatAV. AIM 5.9 can be found at: http://www.aim.com/getaim/win/otherwin.adp?aolp=
I'd also recommend having the windows user connect to a Mac user that has a known configuration that works with both. I know mine does, so feel free to contact me at my AIM screen name (same as on here), just introduce yourself via chat first and I'll be happy to help.
Best of luck!

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