IChat Video Chat not working!!

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IChat Video Chat not working!!

Today is the first day I attempted to use Video Chat on my new computer. Low and behold it doesn't work! Surprise surprise, first day of college and I can't video chat with family/friends. When someone sends me an invitation I click accept, and it goes through for a second and then it says Invitation waiting from... and it doesn't give me an accept or decline. So I accept once and then it asks me all over again to accept the invitation but doesnt give me any buttons to accept it or deny it.

I NEED HELP ASAP!!

MacBook Pro

Posted on Aug 19, 2012 5:57 PM

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Answer 1

Aug 20, 2012 1:57 PM in response to Help..1

Hi,

Which version of the OS ?

Which version of iChat ?

New Computer but listing iChat suggests Lion and iChat 6

Does your college allow Video chatting ?

Some clamp down on it for "security" reasons, others as they see it as a Bandwidth drain.

Have you tested the college has the ports open for iChat ?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1507

Do they use a VoIP/SIP Phone system ?

9:57 PM Monday; August 20, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

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Answer 2

Aug 20, 2012 3:10 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

this is the same problem i have.. except im at home not at college.

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Answer 3

Aug 21, 2012 12:05 PM in response to lfcgerrard93

You already have your own thread going.

In this case the College/University/Campus is likely to be the issue and in that case you will have a different issue to the Original Poster of this thread.

I read and answer everything in the iChat Forum - you will not be missed.

I have been distracted since Mountain Lion was released also trying to keep up with "Messages" tagged posts in the Mountain Lion area.
Rarely do I get more than 24 hours behind.

8:05 PM Tuesday; August 21, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

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