Screen Sharing Fails After 5 Seconds

Question

Heres the deal.
1) Both running Snow Leopard.
2) New Macbook Pro and New iMac top of the line.
3) Fast Bandwidth speeds.
4) Florida <--> Utah.
5) Screen Sharing not working! Steve Jobs ***!
Can anyone help with this issue? And Ralph Johns, if you have any advice please share. I just dont want to hear how it works on your G4/1Ghz Dual Processor! That just wouldn't really help.
Sean

Answer 1

Hi,
So iChat 5
Which increment versions ? (if Updated)
Snow Leopard.
Update to ?
Exactly what is "Fast Bandwidth" where you are ?
In iChat, in the Video menu, have you turned On Screen Sharing ?
In your routing device have you used UPnP to open the ports iChat uses ?
Do you get any error message ?
Does the Connection Doctor say anything in the Errors tab ?
Do you get the Pop up to Send to Apple (Or not) ?
My ageing MacBook Pro of only 3 years of age can also Screen Share
Sometimes I even let it do it to the 8 and 1/2 year old G4/Dual 1Ghz
Your reason for telling me your 2) is to Say "I have the Latest and Greatest, so it should work".
My Reason for telling people my G4 can do it is to say "It can be run on anything above a G4/1Ghz Dual processor, so it's not the Mac or the App"
Notes.
iChat 4 and 5 use 20 ports to do various bits.
One of these, that is used during Screen Sharing is Random. Only UPnP will get around this. (Or Port Mapping Protocol on a Apple Base Station).
My Internet Connection is 8Mbps down (I get about 7.25) and 780 up (I get about 700) and this is average here.
24Mbps both up and down is about top of the Range. 8Mbps down and 500 up is more common.
In Australia anything faster than 128kbps outside of a major town is considered fast.
What is the internet speed like in Utah ?
Are we talking a town or somewhere a bit more remote ?
Re 5)
It's nice that you rate Steve jobs with 3 stars (I presume there are only three stars in your rating system). I don't see what that has to do with Screen Sharing though.
11:07 PM Sunday; June 13, 2010
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