Webcam broadcasts super slow in MSN and Yahoo IM

[Irishmark]

Hi What a great site this is!

Iv'e trawled the forums and can't find answers to my problem, so here goes.
I've just bought a webcam and need a bit of help with it.

After much tinkering the Logitech now works with MSN 6.1 and Yahoo messenger. But it is broadcasting about 1 frame a second.

At the start of connection in statistics it says that the bandwidth is 20kbs but this then rapidly goes down to 0.0 but refresh rate remains the same.

Have gone through video/audio tuning in MSN, no change
reinstalled drivers from Logitech site.
Have gone through all troubleshooting on Yahoo IM site and MSN. on The Yahoo IM help, there is a section where you broadcast from your cam onto the website, refresh rate is pretty good there.

When the webcam is just working locally on screen the refresh rate is nearly real time. I'm thinking that it might be a not enough RAM issue?
When someone else invites me to view their webcam the refresh rate on my screen of their image is about 1 frame a second as well when it is a lot higher on their own screen.
The only thing that I haven't tried that I think may help is update the firmware on the router. I also haven't installed updated Logitech video IM as the link to their site does'nt seem to go anyway when I try to open Video IM.

Details:
Logitech Quickcam for Notebooks (USB)
Home wireless network, Draytek2600 Plus Router/Modem (firewall disabled for now)
ADSL 512kb sec
Actual download speed 429kb sec actual upload speed 240kb sec
Windows XP SP1a
Norton Internet Security (disabled for now)
IBM T23 laptop 256 RAM P111 1.2Ghz

Any help greatly appreciated
Cheers
Mark

[Deadeye]

I experienced problems with audio once, I didnt do much research on it. I simply formatted and reinstalled everything and voila!

[Irishmark]

Hi thanks for your reply. I'd really not like ot have to rebuild the laptop, as I don't have all my software on CD. I'm gonna continue to battle on and fix the problem.