I’ve participated in a multi-way iChat video conference before and it’s damn cool. A friend of mine got an iSight yesterday so we decided to try the multi-way conference. To do that I knew we needed a host with a G5 so I contacted another friend to try it out. We couldn’t get connected because of the famous “insufficient bandwidth” error message, which was pretty crazy since we all have relatively speedy cable connections and some of us were able to chat just fine with others of us one-on-one, while others weren’t. It was weird and complex to explain, and since it’s not the point of this post, I won’t get into it.
Somewhere along the way we looked up the specs for the host in the iChat documentation to make sure the person hosting our chat had the appropriate hardware. Here’s what iChat help said:
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