[mjcoss]

Let me say up front that we didn't use the Smart Dashboard, but rather a custom Labview Dashboard, so not sure if our experience is applicable.

The first question is what are you using for you driver station. If it's the classmate, I would suggest trying replacing it with a better laptop. When we first tried streaming video to a classmate years ago we quickly discovered that it was overwhelmed trying to keep up. If fact we found that to solve our lag issues back then, we needed to do the opposite of what you'd think. With a lower frame rate, the classmate can get all the frames, but can't actually decode and render them. So latency went up, and the CPU was maxed out. Highest resolution, no compression, highest framerate, and poof, the classmate would throw the packets away but the ones it got it could render. Swapping the classmate out will eliminate the processing bottleneck, and should allow you to change the network settings.

We have a Lenovo laptop, and steam from the camera a gray scale image @ 30 fps, and see no lag. Our tracking is using luminescence so no color needed. Are you using motionJpeg compression, H.624, ?