To be fair, Skype's bandwidth (audio wise) sounds a lot better than 3k. That's a value like the horrible cellphone audio bandwidth (which is far worse than POTS). Skype is MUCH better sounding than either. Most of the communication companies don't give a hoot about clarity or quality of the conversation as long as it gets there and people put up with it. The state of telephone communications audio is at an all-time low. How many times have you had to say "WHat?" when using a cellphone? This just didn't happen with the old wired phones nearly as much. I hate the frickin' cellphone and use it every day. It's probably slowly killing me.
The wired phones would NEVER drop a call, the biggest insult of all. Usually it's not a signal strength issue at all; most of the time users get randomly booted and cut off because the bandwidth narrows from the traffic load. ------------------------- Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev 2010/1/18 Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> > stephen- > > Monday, January 18, 2010, 12:27:51 PM, you wrote: > > > By the way, Skype uses UDP > > Yes, but a voice stream has typically a 3kHz bandwidth and dropped > packets don't make much of a difference. > > -- > -Mark Wieder > mwie...@ahsoftware.net > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
