Skype Speed Test Failure
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Andy-
I've stumbled upon your blog--love the writing.
I use SkyPe excessively and--having been a network engineer in another life--understand Quality of Service on internet connections. Skype continues to be a mystery to me--they use quality of service algorithms within the program that are like voodoo.
In the heat of a particularly large download, I can call my mother. Then, out of the blue, I lose a call while clicking "send" in Outlook. It's a strange and vindictive beast.
BraveNewTraveler
Excessively, I wish I could use Skype and the Internet excessively. Yes, I agree, I do not understand the voodoo of how their service works, and am amazed, at what makes it work and what does not. For example, the program on GPRS connection in Togo West Africa would show I was logged in and I was not.
The service is really a one way to work system, if you have a higher than normal speed it works.
This is why it is good test, however, I think it monopolized the bandwidth and stops other people on the same LAN from working. Same maybe as filesharing, Skype is really best on non-shared system.
It is an intrigueing new thing for me, and for sure, I know little about it. I think I average about 3 days per month when I can use SKYPE, so in 24 days a year I am learning, and the other 340 plus days I learn all the ways skype.com will not work.
So I fail to get it to work 340 days per year.
A different snapshot of life and a travelers view, I suppose you can say I travel 340 days a year outside the high speed internet world.