Screen Sharing ends up in a black screen

This morning I enabled Screen Sharing on the computer I use at home. I'm trying to connect from work and, for some reason, after I enter the username and password I get a window with a black screen, then nothing happens.
My brother says that at home the computer says that I'm connected, but I just can't seem to see anything from here.
Both computers are running Leopard, and to connect I use the program Screen Sharing within +System > Core Services+.

The black screen rather than an error message confirms that a connection has been established. The screen remaining black for a length of time probably means that the connection is very slo-o-o-o-w. Wait longer and the remote screen will appear, BUT if you have to wait that long you are likely to find that anything you try to do on the remote machine will take such a long time that the whole endeavour is pretty futile.
You need to find some way of improving the connection.

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