CHATZPPL - A free cam chat for teens

My connection or the connection from my chat partner seems to be slow. We also experience lagging.

There are several factors which can influence the speed and the quality of your connection:

Your webcam. The more FPS (Frame Per Second) your webcam can send to your computer. The better is the picture quality. Your webcam should be able to send at least 30 FPS.

Your computer. Processing the FPS from your webcam consumes CPU power. If your PC has enough CPU ressources, you will achieve better results. If your CPU is utilization is high, stemming from simultaneous downloads, gaming, websurfing, MSN etc. there are less ressources for the webcam/chat tasks.

Your connection. You should be on a broadband connection. Modem/ISDN connections are not recommended. You should be on a DSL line or cable while your available upstream bandwidth is as important as the available downstream bandwidth.
Preferrably your computer should be connected to the access point via a cable. Wireless connections are not recommended as their bandwidth varies and lessenes within homes and with growing distance from the access point. If you share your connection with others your available bandwidth also depends on how much bandwidth the other users use. Also if you are using other webservices this will consume additional bandwidth.

The connection of your chat partner. If your chat partner has a bad connection you cannot do anything as you cannot receive the packets faster than your chat partner can send them. Vice versa you cannot send packets faster than your chat partner can receive them. Thus both chat partner will communicate on the lowest possible speed for both participants. So if you make sure you have a fast connection, you are doing good for your chat partner as well.

Voice + Video. Turning off voice will reduce the bandwidth used. Also watching only one webcam at a time will improve your available bandwidth.