No Screen Share Now...What Gives

Situation....Two imacs. Both have Airport Extreme Router wireless. We were screen sharing for nearly 30 minutes. Everything was fine. We disconnected. About an hour later we tried to connect for another screen share session. This time everything goes through as normal except that my little box continues to say STARTING SCREEN SHARE. Meanwhile I can hear the other party on the other end and we can talk and that good stuff. However, after several minutes I still can not see their desktop. We tired 4-5 connects all with the same results. 2 restarts were also administered. We then tried to connect for a video chat. Everything went FINE with that. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks!

Hi,
Have you got System Preferences > Quicktime > Streaming tab set at 1.5Mbps ?
Restart iChat if you Change.
Open the Connection Doctor (Video Menu) during a Screen Share
In the Statistics it should tell you you are using about 45-50kbps for a Screen Share.
What figure do you see ? (An Audio only chat will come in about 25-30kbps)
The Screen Sharing actually happens on a random ports with a parallel Audio connection n port 16402.
Are you using UPnP in your routing device to allow Ports ?
8:52 PM Monday; April 6, 2009

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