On 22/07/06 13:01 +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Hi guys,
I've installed Skype-1.2.0.18 on my FC2 system. It worked out of the box. But the problem is that voice breaks a lot to such an extent that a decent conversation becomes impossible. I am NATed behind my own router. I've forwarded all ports above 1024 and allowed UDP on them. I have 64Kbps connection but the latency is high on my connection. I get more like 48-56Kbps speeds. As I understand Skype isn't very bandwidth efficient. Can someone point me to a better VoIP software or some hacks so that Skype plays nicely with my connection?
Skype (and most current VoIP software) is extremely bandwidth efficient, unlike bittorrent. However, voice traffic doesn't like congested links (increases jitter) or latency.
No software or traffic engineering can rectify your high latency problem. I recommend moving to a low latency connection with lower congestion to solve this issue.
Devdas Bhagat