Video Chat with Macbook Pro and Macbook

Hi,
IM have a problem with video chatting with my macbook pro, all my internet connections are fine, my camera is fine, and so is my audio. I can start video chats with my friends who have regular laptops that have windows xp/vista over aim. I just cant seem to get it started with my cousin who has a macbook. Can any one please help me? I've been struggling for a long time.
Thank You
P.S. The error states that it was a communication error and that my cousin cancelled the connection(which she didnt).

Denial of Service and Stateful Packet Inspection.
As to where they are on your device is anybody's guess as different manufacturers put them in different places.
Some like Netgear put them on the WAN page of the set up pages.
Linksys includes them in the Firewall in a tab called Security
Netopia included them as part of High and Medium settings of the firewall.
Some have them in "Intrusion Detection"
Some in a separate item in advanced.
The list goes on.....
If you tell us the device we may be able to pin it down further.
It is late here and I may not read any more til tomorrow
11:45 PM Thursday; August 21, 2008

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