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- 22 Feb 2009
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I ******* hate Skype, it sucks *****! There I am happily conversing with my OH on the other side of the pond and everything ****** freezes, then quits the call.
Okay, wait a few moments and after a few failed attempts to reconnect because we're both hitting the call button at the same time we eventually reestablish a connection... for about 5 ***** seconds. Even the text chat server screws up!
Fine, we resolve (through delayed and stuttered lines of text) that when we get reconnected we'll just say our goodnights and leave it... but skype has other ideas. I have now given up after multiple counts of "unknown error", "misc error" and "user not online" when they clearly are! I mean, what's the ****** difference between a misc error and an unknown one?
And it's not like this is uncommon, this is pretty much the way that a half to two thirds of all my skype calls have to be closed. What the **** is wrong with them? It's owned by eBay for crying out loud, it's not like they don't have any ******* money to make this work! ******* ****** ******** service! Gaaaaaargh!!
Okay, wait a few moments and after a few failed attempts to reconnect because we're both hitting the call button at the same time we eventually reestablish a connection... for about 5 ***** seconds. Even the text chat server screws up!
Fine, we resolve (through delayed and stuttered lines of text) that when we get reconnected we'll just say our goodnights and leave it... but skype has other ideas. I have now given up after multiple counts of "unknown error", "misc error" and "user not online" when they clearly are! I mean, what's the ****** difference between a misc error and an unknown one?
And it's not like this is uncommon, this is pretty much the way that a half to two thirds of all my skype calls have to be closed. What the **** is wrong with them? It's owned by eBay for crying out loud, it's not like they don't have any ******* money to make this work! ******* ****** ******** service! Gaaaaaargh!!
But I do pay for the Skypeout services and have had numerous problems with that too (choppy or full of static) even on high-speed networks. It's not like they haven't got any money to work with, and they are the biggest VoIP presence in the world, I'd expect that to translate to the best... but clearly not.