I do not have a bandwidth issue as VOIP works crystal clear for me. As good
as a reguular landline.
"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
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> "jdoe" <jdoe@msn.com> wrote in
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>> Sorry Skype blows pondwater imo. I have tried to talk on it and recieve
>> calls from people using it. It blows big time.
>> "
>
> Joe, do you get internet service from MSN? You have a bandwidth and
> latency issue on your internet connection.
>
> I have Skype installed, with full motion color video, on a laptop at a
> local electronics warehouse store linked through the store's open
> wireless router, 24/7 because they never shut any computer off when they
> close.
>
> I got into a conversation about Skype with another customer as we were
> standing there and he had had similar results as you long ago. I logged
> the little laptop onto Skype with my username, not the freebie I
> installed at the store when noone was looking, so we'd have
> POTS/Cellphone access on my Skype In and Out for calling his cellphone.
>
> I gave him my Skype In local phone number and he dialed it on his
> cellphone. We could hear the combination short delay of his digital
> cellphone and the Skype system by listening to our own echo. Then, I had
> him call my Alltel cellphone in my pocket for comparison. Cellular to
> Skype had LESS delay, very noticibly less delay, than listening to our
> own echos from cellphone to cellphone! The call was clearer on Skype as
> we were only using one slow codec, his cellphone.
>
> I called a local number from the Skype laptop that always puts music-on-
> hold on the line while you wait and wait to talk to the lady at the
> electric company. We listened to the elevator music..yecch..on Skype and
> noted its fidelity. Then we called it from his Cingular cellphone and my
> Alltel cellphone, both on different digital schemes to compare. The
> Skype rendition of the same music-on-hold was MUCH better. That stands
> to reason because as anyone knows music on digital cellular just SUCKS
> because of the awful slow codec cellular uses to increase traffic. The
> nice HP speakers in this store laptop sounded really hifi for a telephone
> music machine.
>
> What do your traceroutes look like to www.skype.com or some other IP
> address outside your ISP's system? What are the ping times and how many
> pings are lost? How busy is your system processor when you're using
> Skype? Is this an old machine with a slow processor? Skype warns it
> will not work properly on slow machines as they add a lot of local
> latency processing Skype's encryption and AtoD/DtoA conversions.
> Encrypting your audio takes quite a bit of computer power. Unlike your
> cellphone, government bureaucrats aren't listening to what you say on
> Skype, to another computer, until it comes out into the POTS phone system
> or to another cellular user.
>
> Something is wrong with your setup. Skype to my buds in Iraq in a tent
> sound just like they're sitting in the room with me....I can even hear
> the MORTARS and RPGs go off!
>
> Larry
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