******* ****** **** *** skype!

[A2Z]

Same here, my GF is far far away, we are on skype most nights on video, and every minute at least 1 of our vids will freeze. Apparantly if you roll back to an earlier version, its a lot more stable, seems the latest releases have got worse and worse

 

[bsoltan]

It is no longer owned by ebay:

September 1, 2009, eBay sells 65% of Skype to Index Ventures and Silver Lake Partners.

They just have a share in the company.

 

[True_Scotsman]

Been using Skype for over 3 years to call back to family in the UK, never had a problem with dropped calls etc, works very well for me.

 

[Mat]

Just watched the anvil video... feeling a little bit better now.

Anvils... cures what ails ya!

 

[clv101]

I use Skype a lot - it's the best there is in my opinion. Your problems are not with Skype but rather with one or both of your systems or the ISPs between in my opinion.

 

[clv101]

But tbh. When facebook make an im app. everything else will get dropped (if it's good enough)...

I use FB chat through Adium on the Mac today...

 

[apatia77]

Skype is perfectly fine for making calls abroad or whatever, I only hate skype for making video calls as it kills my 10mb VM connection.

 

[mcast123]

About to see the goods were we? Yeah, I'd be pretty annoyed too.

this.

You get all excited then the picture goes black and she says "it doesn't matter we can still talk, I like hearing your voice, so how is your family..."

 

[therandom]

..

 

[mrk]

Oh, Hangman?

I love that game!


I choose "E".

 

[Berserker]

OK - may have been mistaken - though BBC News reckons eBay still made a loss on the deal as a whole.

 

[Beansprout]

Skype is heavily dependent on having decent hardware and a good network connection.

It will also proxy through a third party sometimes to get around NAT issues so that's what may be happening here.

I used Skype with my ex between UK/Colombia with minimal hassle

 

[Pish]

About to see the goods were we? Yeah, I'd be pretty annoyed too.

lol

 

[willhub]

Anyone know why skype trys to call a mobile number when I try to call an 0800 number, it even takes the 0 off and says invalid phone number

 

[NickK]

We used to use skype with 0800 numbers all the time for office teleconferences.

Well they turned me down as product manager so I feel no guilt

 

[OldComputerGuy7]

Skype for me has always worked fairly well but you do get a few problems sometimes.

I think also some ISP's may throttle skype sometimes which can cause bad connections or low quality sound and video.

 

[Berserker]

Anyone know why skype trys to call a mobile number when I try to call an 0800 number, it even takes the 0 off and says invalid phone number

Did you select "United Kingdom"? Otherwise it is probably trying to dial a US number.

And yes, I use it for 0800 calls too. My daily Skype calls go to a 1-800 number (US Toll Free) so that's free too (in fact, Skype is the only way I know to make those calls free from the UK). Just as well given the hundreds of calls I've made.

 

[GinG]

Skype is a free service is it not?

If you want a reliable service, stop being a cheap skate and use a proper land line or mobile service?

Also never had any problems using MSN over webcam, maybe try that??

This really is a bug bear of mine, people complaining about FREE services!!

 

[Russinating]

MSN has always been absolutely fine for me for video - you could try that?

Alternatively, Gmail's video chat also works wonders - msyelf and my colleague hold regular video chats via this. Both just need to sign up to a Gmail account (which you should anyway) and away you go.