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After updating my OS today with a new version just released (14 Feb, 2006) I gave iChat another try.
It works ALMOST flawlessly but one glitch remains. This gotta be easy for an expert.
When I call from the PC using AIM 5.9 I can video chat with no problems. Video, sound, everything there with good quality and speed.
When I call from the MAC it's another story. After attempting to respond for a few seconds, I get the message on the MAC side that says "Failed to start Video Chat because: username did not respond", where "username" is myself!
How can I not respond if I am the one initiating the video chat request??
Since it works fine from the PC to Mac I know that camera, modem, etc are all OK.
Any solution for this problem?
I am running tests with BOTH the PC and the Mac at my home, have a BT Voyager 205 modem with a Belkin wireless router, the Mac is connected to the router by an ethernet cable and the PC is a laptop connected via an Intel internal wireless modem, at 54 Mb/s.
The laptop has no firewalls and is running windows XP service pack 1...
Anxiously awaiting enlightenment

I went to this site before... it says the following about this particular problem:
"Can not initiate video conference with AIM: If you cannot initiate a video conference with an AIM user yet they can initiate one with you look at their buddy name. Does it have a space or an uppercase character? There's the problem. The solution is to update iChat to version 3.1.1 (v429) which comes with the 10.4.4 update. (Click Software Update... in the Apple menu) This latest update specifically allows iChat to initiate a video conference with an AOL Messenger (AIM) for Windows user whose name include spaces or uppercase characters."
But not only i have already upgraded to the latest iChat, Tiger, etc but both usernames are all lowercase with no spaces... so this is NOT the problem.
I am no firewall or modem port expert but find it strange that either one could be the culprit since when initiated by the PC the video DOES work perfectly.

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