Well I can report that everyone who saw the ichatAV running with "one way video chat" was impressed. People sat down and found chatting to be quite natural. The quality of sound was pretty good, and the video "good enough" using a 640 x 480 resolution "Pyro FirewireCam". This was all done over the WLAN. I just spoke to a UK Apple dealer who (strangely enough) just received his first 2 iSights today. he's going to set it all up and we will test again tomorrow to see how it goes over the internet. I'll let you know my thoughts. thanks for that link to the cross platform solution also -- I'll check it out. many thanks, -- Tarik Bilgin Opalblue tarik at opalblue.com