Skype

[Safferbeauty]

Who uses it? I used it for the first time in absolute ages and spoke to a friend in London who I have not spoken to since I left a place called Milton Keynes in December 2002. MK is about an hour North of London. When i spoke to him it was not too bad. It broke up a bit but sound was ok. Do you guys use skype often if at all and how much bandwith or whatever it is does it use up if you have ADSL?

 

[Toxin]

Use it to chat with my friend in England and with my family in Canada. Bandwidth usage is so little that I don't really notice and I count every MB every day.

I use it at least twice a week.

 

[Safferbeauty]

OK thats cool because when I get ADSL at the end of this month I wanna use it everyday to chat to friends and stuff

 

[PeterCH]

Use it to chat with my friend in England and with my family in Canada. Bandwidth usage is so little that I don't really notice and I count every MB every day.

I use it at least twice a week.

It works well on Dial up ie 32kbps up and 56kbps down.
Sure it scales if you have a faster connection but the voice is better than
phone quality even on dial-up. In some locations however Skype is
filtered out, as are the other mainstream messanger services,
so I use Speak Free which offers great quality and encryption if ya want.

 

[Safferbeauty]

It was actually quite bad at times last night but other times the voice was crystal clear

 

[bwana]

I use mine regularly and while a normal shaped adsl account works fine I often use it for work so opted for a 1gb unshaped payg account which generally lasts me a couple of months with regular use and saves me a fortune.

I try to avoid video when possible as it chows bandwidth (and its nowhere near as good as iChats).

 

[chambers001]

My folks phone me here in London from PE when ever they want, the quality is good and have never had any problems.