whats happened to skype?

[rolex]

chatted to ladies in china and thailand and taiwan and other far eastern countries before on skypeme mode but now skype stopped it. Guess they dont like western guys chatting eastern gurls in case they all terroist

[Blue Meanie]

rolex said:

chatted to ladies in china and thailand and taiwan and other far eastern countries before on skypeme mode but now skype stopped it. Guess they dont like western guys chatting eastern gurls in case they all terroist

Huh? What you talkin' a bout Willis? I've been speaking to folks all over, and it's worked fine.

[rolex]

just like views on this subject. skype suddenly prevent us from chatting random people througout world

[Famous Graham]

Nope- still chatting to friends in Oz and NZ

[AJS-]

Perhaps it's just that it's still st?

Never had much success with skype and everyone sounds like C3PO

[Blue Meanie]

AJS- said:

Perhaps it's just that it's still st?

Never had much success with skype and everyone sounds like C3PO

I use mine as my home phone, as well as keep in touch with family and freinds in the US, UK, Middle East, and Brazil on it. No issues with sound, and connectivity.

[ymwoods]

what kind of girls you chatting up? maybe your not as smooth as you thought and they blocked you?

[sussexjob]

AJS- said:

Perhaps it's just that it's still st?

Never had much success with skype and everyone sounds like C3PO

You're living in the past or phoning people with dodgy phones it's now better than landlines try this famous oz switchboard 24/7 as a test [phone]

[Silver993tt]

AJS- said:

Perhaps it's just that it's still st?

Never had much success with skype and everyone sounds like C3PO

The sound quality is superb, much, much betterthan any analogue landline/mobile phone. We regularly use Skype to talk to colleagues in th US, NZ and all over Europe and the quality is superb 99% of the time which can't be said for landline/mobile phones. It's also totally free which is amazing.

[AJS-]

Maybe I am living in the past. I haven't actually used it for a good few months and that was on a slightly suspect internet connection.

When I did try to use it a lot then it was never very reliable or decent quality, but that is over a year ago now. Sorry Skype!

[ymwoods]

I have never used it because I heard it was plagued by sync problems (someone being halfway through a sentence but to the other person you have only started saying it, so when they reply you have either sat silent for a while or started on your next part of the convo and interupted them without knowing) is this no longer an issue?

[Silver993tt]

ymwoods said:

I have never used it because I heard it was plagued by sync problems (someone being halfway through a sentence but to the other person you have only started saying it, so when they reply you have either sat silent for a while or started on your next part of the convo and interupted them without knowing) is this no longer an issue?

never had that problem in the 3 years I have been using it. It's nearly always as if the person you are speaking with is sitting across the table from you.

[sneijder]

I use it all the time to ring UK landlines, if there's ever a problem it's due to a shoddy connection my end.

[CO2000]

Not into phoning randoms but seems to work fine when it works (just cuts out without warning sometimes)

However ever since its been installed my internet explorer hangs up from time to time, I have deactivated the phone No's/Country of No feature (as per google advice) so will see how that goes.

Anybody else had similar issues ?

[Puggit]

Never had a good experience of Skype - even when using fast broadband connections. Over the years with better broadband, it still hasn't improved.

The lag introduced to speech was unacceptable, and that's when there wasn't loud interference.

[LJTS]

I used Skype Christmas Day to make video calls to family in Germany & Australia & the sound/video were excellent!

And you're not charged using it!

[RemaL]

I'm new to Skype but having no issue talking to my mate and fellow PH'er in Indonesia over the past few weeks.

[lestag]

ymwoods said:

I have never used it because I heard it was plagued by sync problems (someone being halfway through a sentence but to the other person you have only started saying it, so when they reply you have either sat silent for a while or started on your next part of the convo and interupted them without knowing) is this no longer an issue?

It depends on your connection and the connection at the other end. Someone at the other end may be using:
1. WIFI with latency issues
2. Mobile broadband with latency and uplink speed issues
3. ADSL capped at 128kb uplink
4. a congested internet connection due to others in house or overloaded backhaul pipe from neighbourhood

There are many, many, many, variables

Edited by lestag on Monday 28th December 02:09

[The_Jackal]

Let me get this right.
You are complaining (on a public forum, and PH at that) that you are getting bad Skype quality when trying to talk to random Thai and Chinese women..........

I will assume the xmas period is helping this nip under the radar.

[AJS-]

The_Jackal said:

Let me get this right.
You are complaining (on a public forum, and PH at that) that you are getting bad Skype quality when trying to talk to random Thai and Chinese women..........

I will assume the xmas period is helping this nip under the radar.

It's a good point. I think the total lack of ambiguity actually saved the OPs skin here. If he had said to talk to "friends" in Thailand and China he would have been pulled apart and accused of grooming. And asked for pictures.