Play music through Skype

[Basil Chupin]

On 28/05/11 04:45, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 06:43 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote:
>> On 05/27/2011 01:56 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>> Ric Moore wrote:
>>>> Since it's a known fact that the Internet is a series of tubes, what
>>>> you are trying to do, via Skype, will cost someone else some
>>>> bandwidth.
>>> I don't think that's a problem because that other person agreed to
>>> provide the bandwidth. According to the Skype EULA, Skype may use up all
>>> the available resources. Or at least that was my understanding of the
>>> EULA when I rejected it some years ago.
>>>
>>>
>>> Nils
>>>
>> We live out beyond the end of the fiber and wires. Our internet comes to
>> us via radio. Think of it as a kind of Super Wifi. Anyway, we have a
>> very close relationship with our ISP. We provide tower space and the
>> electricity to run his equipment which he sells service to others from.
>> In exchange we get free high speed internet service. He hates Skype.
>> It's a _MAJOR_ bandwidth hog. He will often throttle back someone that
>> uses Skype. A major hog like Skype slows down everyone else on the system.
> That was my point. When the technology is misunderstood, then it's just
> a magic tube to stuff a radio broadcast of "My Favorite Music" through,
> and every one else eats worms. On one hand, it would be an interesting
> intellectual effort to learn how to do so. On the other, if everyone did
> it, I wouldn't see my email for days. So, I agree with ole Ted Stevens,
> the Internet is not a truck, it's a series of tubes! ...and a tube has a
> limited/finite amount of capacity.
>
>> On the interesting side. Use of a magicJack doesn't even show up on the
>> network, I don't know how they do it but it uses virtualy no bandwidth
>> at all and call quality is excellent. Must be some kind of compression
>> algorithm.
> They would probably sell for 5 billion, since it seems to work. :) Ric


Methinks that you ought to be aware of this:


The post-acquisition outage.

Skype issued a manual workaround on Thursday to resolve a glitch that 
prevented mostly Windows users from logging in.

The VoIP company, which Microsoft has agreed to pay US$8.5 billion for, 
gave instructions on how to resolve the log-in problem by deleting a 
“shared.xml” file.

“This predominantly affects people using Skype for Windows,” its 
advisory stated 
<http://heartbeat.skype.com/2011/05/problems_signing_into_skype_an.html>. Similar 
instructions were given to Mac OS X and Linux users.

The rush to find out what went wrong also temporarily knocked Skype’s 
website offline.

[more]

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/258746,skype-bug-blocks-mostly-microsoft-users.aspx 



BC

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