Your internet connect speed is the driving factor. A home network speed is far faster than the internet speed. When I tested my web cam on my network It was almost like TV. When I talked to a friend it was like you describe.
What type of connection do you have?
Hi -
I'm on an out of town job and would like to be able to video chat with my wife and baby back home. I just bought us both logitech cams (which seem to work great) but the problem is software....
There doesn't seem to be any good video chat software available that I can find. We can see each other on Yahoo Messenger (version 6.0) but the speed of the connection is terrible. We can get at best 3 frames per second (tested w/both PC's on the home network) and I know the camera is capable of 30 Frames per second.
We also tried eyeball chat, but it crashes repeatedly and there seeems to be no support for available for it.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!!!!
(setup - home PC is running Windows XP Media center edition -- my laptop is Windows 2000 Pro).

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