Most people who use NetMeeting probably have exactly this problem. The speed and quality of the NetMeeting connection is affected by a number of variables, including the speed of your machine, whether it has MMX, the speed of your connection to the Internet, your ISP's quality of connection to the Internet, and finally, the busy-status of the Internet itself. In order for a netcam call to work, the video must first be compressed to a size that's small enough to send in real time.
Real time means that one second of video takes one second to send across the Internet.
If it takes more than one second it's not going to play back in real time. Additionally transmission has to take place quickly enough so that there's not a huge amount of delay before you speak and move and the time the person who's seeing it responds. Your computer has to do some serious chewing and processing to make that happen, and it has to happen very, very quickly. The way the Internet works is not optimized for streaming video. Help Site of the Week AMD help and news at your fingertips.