Poor video from Leopard to Tiger

I've used iChat between an iMac and a MacBook almost daily for a year. At Christmas I upgraded the iMac to Leopard. iChat works, but I now get very poor video quality at the MacBook end. The connection doctor shows that typically my local bandwidth is around 200 - 300 kb/s but the other way is around 50 kb/s. Nothing changed in my router or any of the other networking hardware to the best of my knowledge.
Has anyone else experienced this? Any suggestions to improve the performance. Previously with Tiger at both ends the connection and video was usually fairly good and the connection rate more even.

Ralph: I have the exact same problem. Here is my output:
CMSCreateDataProviderOrGetInfo : Invalid colorspace type
184730.894588 Loading hardware rules from hardwarerulesH264-G4.plist
184730.894679 Checking H264 hardware rules
184730.894695 Satisfied rule #1 (20:640x480)
184730.894951 setLocalUserName: @192.168.1.101
184730.931409 Default video size is (640x480)
184730.982375 ### NEW STATE: to: VC_INIT, from: VC_INVALID
184730.983097 ### NEW STATE: to: VC_IDLE, from: VC_INIT
184730.983165 ++++++++ confStatusMapRemoveAll
184730.983182 ( ) -- mapUserIDToSecurityInfo cleared --
184730.992342 UPnP init passed
184730.992852 NATTraversal created
184730.993095 Bandwidth based on QT prefs = 1500
184730.999660 BWD: GotBandwidth: 961793/23937267 (up/down) @[192.168.1.101:255.255.255.0]
184730.999755 BWD bandwidth: 961 kbits up, 23937 kbits down.
184730.999796 videoNetworkCapable: 1 -- 3 max participants.
184730.999808 audioNetworkCapable: 1 -- 9 max participants.
184730.999860 vcCapabilities returns: 0x0000003f
184730.999872 VCCapAudio
184730.999881 VCCapVideo
184730.999890 VCCapMultiAudio
184730.999898 VCCapMultiVideo
184730.999907 VCCapMultiAudioHost
184730.999916 VCCapMultiVideoHost

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