<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Aron,<DIV>Are you positive that there's no firewall on the router? Are you able to check your router settings to confirm that the appropriate ports are open? I ran into this one a lot until I realized that I had to specifically forward certain ports over to my iMac with Port Forwarding. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There is a great troubleshooting website for iChat AV (especially as regards connecting to Windows XP AIM users) at</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.mvldesign.com/video_conference_tutorial.html#fw">http://www.mvldesign.com/video_conference_tutorial.html#fw</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>and Apple has a list of required ports available at:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93208">http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93208</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Feel free to fire up iChat and text me at mikee60369 (AIM/AOL, not .Mac and not my michaelelliott at dotmac address...I don't connect to iChat AV with this account) if you like.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 12, 2006, at 9:21 PM, Aron Spencer wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">I have recently begun getting the message "Failed to start Video Chat because: Aron Spencer did not respond" when I try to initiate or accept a video chat. It was working fine a couple days ago, there is no firewall on the machine or on the router (video chat works, albeit at a lower quality, on an iBook G4 on the same LAN). Any ideas?<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>iChat AV 3.1.3(v432)</DIV><DIV>PowerMac G5 (2x2.5GHz, 2.5 GB RAM)</DIV><DIV>OS X 10.4.6</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Aron S. Spencer</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Elizabeth, NJ 07202</FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>