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O2 broadband and SKYPE

ikon · 2009-03-09 20:48:04

Has anybody got any experience using skype on O2 mobile broadband? Any good? I am bit concerned about the ping time which is too high @200-250 ms (Approx.) Thanks.

09-03-2009 08:48PM

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ikon

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Has anybody got any experience using skype on O2 mobile broadband? Any good?

I am bit concerned about the ping time which is too high @200-250 ms (Approx.)

Thanks.

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#2 09-03-2009 08:50PM

toe_knee

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Used it for a year and have to say it was poor. Very slow and broken speach. I do live in the sticks so I was happy to have anything faster than dial up. I would say if you have decent signal it might be tolerable.

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#3 09-03-2009 09:12PM

watty

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It will vary from poor to unusable.

3's Skype phones don't use Skype at all (which is why it works). iSkoot uses data to connect a call and then the voice is via regular 3G phone call to a Skype client/server in 3's Network, to connect onwards via VOIP.

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