Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Karanbir Singh wrote:
hi,
We had a bit of a struggle with Skype today trying to get a few people talking about some infrastructure issues. And I was wondering if anyone had recommendations on what other options there might be ?
Although the problem really seems to have been on my side, I have some data loss somewhere between my home router and the next hop which then leads to static noise over ip instead of voice over ip.
Ohh. And skype is so a not standard protocol I would just love to make it go away in favor of open standards.
Yes. The problem with skype is: It just works. No matter if your home router has a firewall or does NAT or whatever. It works.
Trust me on this: it does not. I have several dozens of linux boxen around, with all flavours of Centos 3, 4 and 5. Skype is my nightmare on anything but the latest version of Centos. Leaving aside that becoming a relay for others and having no control whatsoever over what is sent on the wire scares the s**t out of me.