Yahoo has been unreliable forever, and lately I have heard girls complaining that Eyeball Chat has been down and out more than it has been available.
Some girls do sightspeed, which has the annoying feature of making it really easy for a customer to record your cam within the program, so many avoid it.
I also know a few who use Paltalk, but the viewer has to pay for an account to watch, so that doesn’t work for too many.
I use a company called influxis.com. It’s a flash media host, which means that it hosts and streams your feed on flash, which is about the most common format there is nowadays.
I had looked at buying software to put in a video chatroom, but all of them cost a bundle (like $1000 for a real video chatroom), and then after you paid, you still had to get a flash media server.
With this one, you get a bundle of free chatroom and broadcast scripts that come configured for your website. So you do need a site to put the embed code on.
I was chatting with a guy on yahoo who wanted to show me his cam, but it froze up every couple of minutes. I sent him to one of my chatrooms, and the picture was perfect, no more freezeups.
Plans start at $10 a month and the cost is determined by how much bandwidth you use and how many simultaneous connections you want.
I’d like to say I’m getting a signup fee for saying this, but they don’t have an affiliate program for customers. Check it out if you have your own site. If you’re busy, it will more than pay for itself.
