Skype :(

[Kloofvreter]

Probably not in the right section, but could not find anywhere else to post it.
Skype is really handy as a chat/IM tool, because almost all my friends use it. The only problem with Skype is that most of the time, when I send a message, that little spinning circle that says not delivered yet pops up just to piss me off, and the message goes through much later. Anyone else experiencing this?

 

[HazMan]

Often... in fact, most of the time. BUT this may be due to my Mweb Uncapped account

Edit: will test at home on Cell C tonight

 

[Venomous]

No problem on an AH unshaped line

 

[snobee]

I think this is related to the ISP. Probably a port shaping or application shaping issue. I have seen similar symptoms if I shape the crap out of my network, and I will have similar problems as skype attempts to get around the shaping and establish a connection. Another symptom would be that skype will disconnect more often that it should... you will notice it goes grey and then back to whatever status you had selected.

 

[bekdik]

Sounds lile it could be a peering problem or the recipient is offline

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I thought I may just elaborate on this thread (Hijack ) - but has anybody else been experiencing degraded performance with Video calling on Skype lately? Lately for me it's practically useless 60% of the time. I doubt very much it is my connection either as everytime I have issues with video calling I cycle through three different ISP accounts (first my OpenWeb Gold VB, then Afrihost free 1gig and then Cybersmart bandwidth).

It seems to be like this mainly on weekends.

 

[nic777]

I often get the "undelivered message" when I chat. If its someone I know well like my collegue across the country, we just miss call each other and that forces a connection and sends through the messages.

I would also like to know what the problem really is and find a permanent solution.