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 |  holocronPremium join:2004-06-28 Minneapolis, MN | Re: hmmm said by DaBears57:So what was the real reason for the outage? That would be telling. | |
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 |  | | It's BS. I bought the Skype Unlimited Calling (Anywhere in Canada/US for a year), but the date's still the same, they didn't give me my seven days... | |
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 | | "Shutup" We not really going to say anything else, heres 7 days...now shut up! -- F@H | |
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 SuperCPAPremium join:2002-11-28 Dayton, OH | Seven Days Free Seven days free, on to the current subscription. Wow, I'm impressed!  | |
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 |  en102Canadian, eh? join:2001-01-26 Valencia, CA | Re: Seven Days Free Yeah - I paid $15 for a year... its too expensive  -- Canada = Hollywood North | |
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 |  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium join:2001-04-27 Phoenix, AZ kudos:4 | said by SuperCPA:Seven days free, on to the current subscription. Wow, I'm impressed! I'm not. they should have given a month if anything. Course thats more than sunrocket ever gave for an outage. course to GIVE 7 days, sunrocket would have had to be UP for 7 days -- You can never be too rich, too thin or have too much Bandwidth | |
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 |  |  | | Re: Seven Days Free said by dvd536:said by SuperCPA:Seven days free, on to the current subscription. Wow, I'm impressed! I'm not. they should have given a month if anything. Course thats more than sunrocket ever gave for an outage. course to GIVE 7 days, sunrocket would have had to be UP for 7 days Why do you think they should give a month of free service for a few days outage? | |
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 NJxxxJonDSLR'er from the 56k days.Premium join:2005-10-22 00000 | 999 I never really use my skype crap anymore and cant find a phone that will WORK GREAT with vista. | |
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 |  elios join:2005-11-15 Springfield, MO | Re: 999 just get a stand alone wifi one they cost more but you dont need a PC | |
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 |  ifarrell join:2000-08-10 Willow Spring, NC | Is there anything that WORKS GREAT with Vista?  | |
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 bmfanPremium join:2005-03-15 Saint Helen, MI | Paid Skype Users Get 7 Free Days I didn't even really notice the outage, and no idea of I got the 7 days credit or not. I don't really keep track, for 15 bucks a year it's not really a big deal -- Trust is the condition necessary for betrayal | |
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 | | Wow You guys would cry if you got hung with a new rope! "Waaa-I want a month.. waaaa.. I want answers!" TG I'm not running skype. You would've gotten two "replacement" days for the outtage, and not a minute more! | |
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 |  TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus join:2001-06-20 Cheyenne, WY | Well here is what happened Well here is what actually happened to Skype
From issue 2618 of New Scientist magazine, 24 August 2007, page 25
The two-day outage of one of the world's largest peer-to-peer (P2P) interned services has raised concerns about the technology's robustness.
P2P networks are touted as the future of internet distribution for video and TV, since the high bandwidth that would normally be provided by central servers is instead shared between individual network members, removing the problem of data bottlenecks.
But on 16 August, the Skype internet telephony network, which depends on P2P, crashed. MIllions of users' computers had rebooted almost simultaneously during a routine update of Windows software. This reduced the network's resources, and when that multitude of freshly rebooted computers sent their combined log-in requests to Skype, its servers buckled. -- Remember safe sex does not prevent crabs. | |
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