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| reply to Amanita
Re: Has anyone used Skype successfully witha satelitte service?
Not sure if Skype would work in this situation, given the lag [latency} issues.
I checked skype forums here are a couple of threads:
»tinyurl.com/2axoky They say it should work.
»tinyurl.com/2gflkf - here they say problems due to skype taking up a lot of bandwidth - though on my DU meter when I am using skype, I have 2-5K up and same down. Thats not a lot on a 1 meg connection, me thinks.
Here another with a link to wild blue, that says they do not support voip. Though I have worked for qwest on the ISP end and there were a lot of things we did not 'support' - it did not mean something would not work, just that we as techs would not help in setting it up and troubleshoot something,
»tinyurl.com/2hs83v
Hope this helps, Since it is free I'd at least try it. I am always downloading programs mentioned in newsletters from cnet, zdnet, etc. Some of the best proggys I have are free. |
