On Sep 3, 2009, at 11:44 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Sound on Skype is very unpredictable. Sometimes it works well and sometimes it doesn't. I often get brake up (pauses) with speech. Or I find that the Skype Sound settings in Options have changed. Or before it worked now it won't.
I get the same problems (breakup) and other random problems under both MacOS and Windows on several different computers. I think it is a SKYPE problem, not a Linux one.
You can turn on a display of packet information and see how many dropped or out of sequence packets you get. You can improve it if you open a UDP port on your router for SKYPE. The port is a user setting so you can do it for more than one computer if you share a router.
BTW, SKYPE is very careful to keep the exact details of their protocol hidden, though some people have packet sniffed it. Because it is hidden, one of the things I can't do is to give it priority (QOS) over other things on my router. Therefore SKYPE is often a less than desirable way for me to communicate. I use SKYPE, and yes they do get some of my money, but most of my money goes to SIP providers who use an open protocol. YMMV.
Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM Jerusalem Israel [email protected] _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
