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From: Kevin McMurtrie on 21 May 2010 02:32
In article <1jinchc.1g59k7v1dus2wwN%pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink>,
pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs) wrote:

> OK - I am going to flack for this because I am asking about a Window
> machine, but I don't feel like hunting out the darkside newsgroups. So
> here goes.
>
> My girlfriend is in Chile and we video Skype a lot. I am living in a
> house that has rather reliable 1 Mbps DSL. She has been Skyping from a
> variety of places including malls and various relatives houses. Anyway,
> we really cannot go more than a minute or so before her video freezes
> and stays on one frame. The audio is not affected. My video from my
> MacBook does not freeze on her end.

A couple of issues:
If you're both behind NAT or a firewall, there's no way to create a
direct connection because neither one of you has a public address. In
this case Skype must try to get other Skype applications with direct
access to act as relays. It's unreliable and the performance is
terrible. Setting up port forwarding through the a NAT/firewall can fix
this.

Many ISPs block Skype even though they claim they don't. I've never
been able to get Skype working to a Comcast user. It starts out fine,
slows down, then drops.


Some networks offer VPN services that will temporarily give your
computer a public IP address with no local filtering.
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