On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 1:06 PM, sean halter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > I do a lot of skype calls over wireless and I have a question that some of > you might be able to answer. > My work computer is running an AMD Vision with Windows 7 and Skype calls > made via the wireless card are perfect. I mean virtually 100% of the time. > However, on my netbook running Ubuntu 10.04 (using the same wireless > router) calls often suck, with dropped portions of conversations. Is this > due to the wireless card in my netbook, or, is it because the netbook is > running the drivers in Wine?
Wine or NDIS wrapper? In my experience the performance of ndiswrapper was an order of magnitude lower than a native driver. My current laptop has an Intel wifi adapter and it works great with skype (I also use 802.11a to avoid the congestion in the 2.4 Ghz band) and tc to prioritize skype over web and email traffic. > Any ideas?\ > Would things get better if I were running linux and skype on a > speedier computer? Or is this an operating system thing? More power helps, netbooks are just too underpowered for my taste. Your problem is likely the chipset in the wifi card. Fortunately for most netbooks it is possible to replace this device with something better (like one of these for example http://www.xagyl.com/store/product.php?productid=16172&cat=251&bestseller=Y) I favor an actual laptop with dual band (2.4 and 5 Ghz) support. It seems almost everybody has a 802.11b/g/n AP on 2.4 Ghz these days. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
