Okay, I love my Mac, but this is nuts. I can connect to the video test accounts just fine. And my parents can connect to those accounts just fine as well.
but when we try to connect together, nadda. Just "error -22". If I remove my voice over ip modem (nice of someone to mention that they all use the same protocol) from the chain, then we get "error -8". That's getting closer to zero, so maybe that's better?
No idea, totally frustrating. Sorry Apple but you missed the boat by about a million miles on this one. I don't think the average user has a chance in hell of making this work.
7/31/07 Update:
I did finally figure this out, and it wasn't quite as freaky a solution as I had feared. I had thought maybe my VOIP modem was doing something to the SIP initialization from iChat, but removing it didn't make a difference. The problem was actually on my parent's end; they have some weird DSL modem that does NAT as well. Then they have a wireless router immediately behind that, and all the computers hang off the router. It was that double-NAT jump that was breaking things (predictably), at least I think. Plugging their computer directly into the DSL modem takes care of the problem.
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