skype video problems?

I think there is an option somewhere to turn off video to save bandwidth. But have had a lot of strange issues with skype lately on another persons PC requiring a re-install.
 
Difficult to say...

For voice only it depends on your connection speed. Apparently skype adjusts itself to suit your connection speed. http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=71435

For much slower connections as soon as you turn on video it just lags out completely. I'm not sure offhand how much skype will use but I assume it would also adjust the video streaming quality to suit the connection? All in all though Video + Audio should take more bandwidth than Audio alone. On my 384kbps line I handle both just fine with the occasional voice lag though so it does operate lower than 35kb/s albeit not quite 100% but good enough.

I think there is also an option to display bandwidth usage somewhere. I don't have skype on this PC so can't check :/
 
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