Yahoo! Cam

[Rat]

This may not be the right place to post this, so move it as necessary.

Running:
WinXP Home
P-4 2.6C
512 DDR
ATI AIW 9600 Pro
Bellsouth DSL
Linksys broadband router
No software firewall (only the one in the router)
AVG
Spybot
etc....


It seems since I installed the router, when I run my cam on Yahoo the system slows to a crawl. The cam sends a pic every 10 seconds or so, when I move windows around.... the action is delayed by a few seconds and when typing.. the action is also delayed a few seconds. When the cam is off, everything is fine.
Any ideas?


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[rraehal]

I would start with a driver update for the camera.

Look in Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL/TASK MANAGER) and go to the processes tab. Look and see which application is taking your CPU time (Look at the perentage). Post that information.

[Rat]

I updated the cam drivers already with no luck, even tried unistalling and re-installing the Yahoo! with no luck either. I have a feeling it has to do with the router because with the router by-passed, it works fine.


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[rraehal]

Is the Linksys USB by chance?

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The Linksys is a WRT54G using NIC's (Cat5e) at each machine and a wireless laptop. There are three machines all together. The Camera is an Intel CS630 Pocket Cam hooked up thru USB on a hardwired machine. The other machine (hardwired) uses a Logitech USB cam with no issues. The laptop (wireless) has no camera.


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[Rat]

Also, forgot to mention in the earlier post.... the CPU and memory Usage stays low with the cam running. The CPU stays around 1% and the memory usage is at 256mb with Yahoo, IE6, Spybot, ATI apps and AVG running.


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[rraehal]

Since your computer does not seem to have the CPU maxed, look at your network utilization. You can access that via task manager as well in XP. Is your network maxed with the USB camera active?

[Rat]

Nope.... network is at or near zero


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