My experience exactly Pete.
On Feb 13, 2010, at 3:59 AM, Peter Kim wrote:
I have used Skype to call South America and Asia successfully, as
well as within the USA. Skype can be pretty demanding on a home
network- I often saw consumer level wireless routers slow to a
crawl when one person logged onto Skype. Many new routers have the
ability to prioritize and better handle voip packets, but be
prepared to pay for better performance, especially with video.
On Feb 12, 2010 8:16 PM, "Kris Tilford" <[email protected]> wrote:
On Feb 12, 2010, at 5:17 PM, John Callahan wrote:
Yes. It (Skype) works fine on Mac.
I don't know about "fine". I've been attempting to talk with a
friend who's visiting the Middle East, and it was a very poor
connection. I then called my brother who was in Austin, Texas (I'm
in Kansas), and it was equally poor, and even dropped the
connection. I think perhaps iChatAV is a better choice for Mac-to-
Mac? I believe there are other VOIP programs that are compatible
with Skype, so perhaps Skype isn't the best choice, I don't know?
From my minimal experience I wouldn't use the words "works fine"
for Skype.
Also, I was trying to troubleshoot a webcam and tried using Skype
to test the function. I placed a call from one Mac in my home to
another Mac in my home, and to my astonishment the video was
perhaps twenty or thirty seconds delayed. I've heard of latency,
but this was insane. I had the computers in different rooms and it
was like a time machine, I could walk into the other room and see
the video of what happened half a minute ago. It was bizarre, and
no way any meaningful conversation could happen over this
connection. I suppose rather than scoping out the direct, lowest
latency connection between the two computers, it has to be sent to
Bethesda or somewhere the NSA can get their copy?
I diverge, but since I mentioned low latency connections, there is
a company that's going to do live multi-player video games where
the games reside on a host computer, and your computer is
basically a dumb terminal. This method has many advantages, which
one of the coolest is being able to spectate at multi-player
games. There could be a crowd of a million watching two teams play
against each other, just like real life sports. The technology
they use to find the lowest latency connection should be
incorporated into these video VOIP programs. Here's a link to the
demo, I thought it was fantastically persuasive IF IT WORKS as it
appears to in this demo:
<http://www.viddler.com/explore/gamertagradio/videos/160/169.707/>
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