Sharing pictures doesn't work anymore

Question

I used to be able to snap a picture, see the picture, and then on that screen, hit the picture and hit the sharing button to message it to someone (or do other things with it).
Since the last two ios upgrades (6 and above), this feature doesn't work correctly.
Before:
1) Click home button
2) Launch camera using an upswipe on the camera
3) Take picture
4) Click on thumbnail in lower left corner
5) Click on picture that comes up
6) Select outgoing arrow on bottom
7) Select message and send pic
After:
1) Click home button
2) Launch camera using an upswipe on the camera
3) Take picture (btw, my iphone5 pics are *fuzzier* than iphone4!!)
4) Click on thumbnail in lower left corner
5) Click on picture that comes up
6) Try to select outgoing arrow on bottom, but doesn't show up
7) Click home button
       -- Either --
8) Launch camera again from home page camera icon
9) Click on thumbnail on lower left corner of last picture taken
10) Select outgoing arrow on bottom that *now shows up the second time, but didn't show up the first time* [BUG]
11) Select message and send pic
      -- OR --
8) Launch the photos gallery from the photos icon
9) Choose Camera roll from albums
10) Try to figure out which picture it was from the thumbnails
11) Select the picture thumbnail by clicking on it
12) On the image that comes up, click on it to bring up context menu
13) Select the outgoing arrow on bottom (the one that doesn't show up in the camera app view) [BUG]
14) Select message and send pic
The bottom line is, something I do several times a day, used to work great on pre-ios6 and iphone4, now really *****.  I keep waiting for this to get fixed, but apparently it's not, so I wanted to document the process. 

Answer 1

Hi,
It should work.
Sending any pic file format that Preview can open should be viable.
Check that you are using port 443 in iChat Menu > Preferences > Accounts > Server Settings rather than the default port of 5190
iChat by default logs in to the AIm servers on port 5190 ON TCP protocol
Pics in Chat are sent on port 5190 but on UDP Protocol
Some routers and modems do not like this dual use of the port and changing the Login port is a works around and the only port you an change.
Ralph