Netgear router & iChat AV-Need Help!

Can anybody help me with my router settings so I don't get an error message with iChat AV? Texting is fine. Not sure what to change in the router or in Apples's sharing dialog box.

Stan...
Same router here. Video used to work fine, until January 15th. Then it went kerplooey. Video kept working for some, not for others. The 'Error -8' nightmare. But, lo and behold, the Apple auto-testers were all still A-OK.
I abandoned video chatting on iChat four months ago when frustration took over, because no available online solution would work. Ports (Forwarded or Triggered), the UPnP option, Firewalls on or off. Out of the box usage...? Yeah, right.
I still see that Error -8 is as popular as ever in this forum.
If you find a solution, please, PLEASE let me know.
Thanks.
It's a WGR614v5. I went to
http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/ContactTesters.h
tml and it worked with the test site.
I can't get it to connect with my cousin's MacBook
Pro.
I'm not sure I have correct setting in Sharing prefs
or in the Netgear setup.
Thanks
B&W w/600Mhz G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 1G RAM - ATI Radeon 9200 PCI Graphics Card - Pioneer 111D SuperDrive

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