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Posted by Jono on February 11, 2006, 4:32 pm
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news laid this down on his screen :
> I have been trying to talk to my daughter in New Zealand using video Skype
> beta 2.0.0.63, under Win XP Home. I am on broadband in the UK, but
> unfortunately she is still on 56 kbps dialup.
>
> The connection starts off well -- excellent picture and acceptable audio --
> but after a few seconds the audio starts to break up badly, and my daughter
> sounds as if she is overdosing on a mixture of mogadon and helium!
>
> Then, after about 30 seconds, the connection automatically terminates.
>
> This is repeated every time we connect.
>
> I assume that Skype is automatically terminating the connection because the
> audio is broken up so badly. (I don't have any problems talking to other
> people overseas, but they are all on broadband).
>
> Is there anything in Skype we can twiddle to improve things? Connection
> timeout? Codec?
Voice alone will consume virtually all(if not all) the dial-up
bandwidth & you're sending video as well?
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