Using video chats in college... HELP!!

Question

well its pretty clear that everyone must be having the same issues as me. everyone is moving into school and taking advantage of the free internet in the dorms but now video chats dont work!
is there anyways around this?
im assuming its because the ports are closed and i gurantee no one is going to convince the school otherwise to open them
is there ways around this to allow us to have video chat to work! help guys! haha thanks so much

Answer 1

Hello Broski7
You have landed in iSight Discussions.
If your built-in iSight passes the checks in Apple's How to Troubleshoot iSight, you can rule it out as a contributor to your problem.
If your iSight is not your problem, and your ONLY trouble is with iChat AV 3, you will need to concentrate on that one application.
If you can use iChat video outside the school's network, the problem must be related directly to using their LAN. Perhaps your school's IT or LAN administrators can help you. Have you asked them? If anyone else successfully use iChat video from behind the school network, have you tried their suggestions?
There are a number of people who have solved their iChat video problems at school. You can consider the suggestions that helped the users who posted these threads
  http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5113793
  http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4938159
  http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4631466
or some of the other links returned by this search of iChat AV 3 Discussions.
Perhaps you are not using iChat or have tried several different chat applications and KNOW that the problem is with the school's network. You say that you "gurantee no one is going to convince the school otherwise to open them". You may be right about that. Sometimes there is nothing you can do other than get outside the school's network and use a different internet connection.
<hr width="85%">
Although I do not believe this is causing your problem, your system info shows that you are still using 10.4.8. Unless you have compelling reason to use the outdated OS software, you should update to the latest version using the following method:
• Backup your Home Folder, or at very least, your important files.
• Repair permissions. (Click here if you need help.)
• Then download and apply the Mac OS X 10.4.10 Combo Update v1.1 (Intel).
Finish with another Permissions Repair immediately after you restart your MacBook.
EZ Jim
PowerBook 1.67 GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.10)    G5 DP 1.8  External iSight