Skype Problem Mute Checked
Skype Problem Mute Checked
Bangkok Thailand Southeast Asia
5:35 AM January 3, 2007
I enter many Internet cafes, and there are numerous reasons why I am not able to use Skype.com to make a phone call. I think the number one reason is the headset. I am going to try to carry my own into the Internet cafes and see if this overrides some problems.
I have now tried 10 machines, in two separate cafes. One machine that was working good, now is not. I know the location of good machine, however, it is 5:21 in the morning in Bangkok and that Internet Cafe is closed. The one lady keeps trying to give me my ten baht back, I say, that is not the goal, I want to make a phone call to the USA while the time is 5:00 in the afternoon.
The Internet cafe has the mute checked. There are two adjustments. Click the little speaker one time and a little volume thing will come up, twice and this one come up.
I am collecting problems, very difficult to find them all, however with the new labels, I can continue to collect and on this page may be all the problems I encounter.
Skype Problems
Skype Problem Mute Checked
Labels: Internet, Mobile Office, Skype, Thailand
3 Comments:
Darlin'.
I, after much dragging of feet, finally got a headset and downloaded Google talk, at the urging of my (wise, but not particularly computer-savvy) father. You should try it. I'm ot on the payroll, so that's all I'm saying.
Hi Andy,
I've been experimenting with Skype for a year or two now (it has taken so long because i do not know many other people with it). The little 'mute' box for the microphone is a constant annoyance for me.
When using programs to record input, or if I want to run my voice through the laptop to amplify, then normally the mic has to be on mute for those programs to recognise the input. Otherwise windows just plays it live.
For Skype, it seems to vary.
Hi Andy:
I picked up a headset in India because the cafes almost never had them. I found a relatively small one. You can also get a set of earbuds with the microphone on the cord. Earbuds are the little things in the ears that make the mobile phone junkies look like they are crazy people talking to themselves on the street. Whatever you get make sure it is for a computer and not a mobile. It should have two jacks and not one.
At the Wat end of Khao San Road, just to the right of the petrol station, is an internet cafe equipped for skype. I've been using it and it works quite well. However, it is not associated with a hotel and closes at midnight.
Mark
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