Re: [Bloat] Skype (and Google Voice)

Re: [Bloat] Skype (and Google Voice)

[David Collier-Brown]

Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
>I recently tried to use both skype and google voice on a concall to
>the US during the recent strike and riots in barcelona. Power and
>regular internet were down, so I hacked my way into a local mesh node
>with a spare directional antenna to make the call.
>
>The connection was quite lousy,
>
>Skype was unusable. Google voice sort of worked, but exhibited classic
>symptoms of overbuffering and wifi retries, sometimes playing back
>seconds of audio at a very high rate, and otherwise dropping out
>frequently.
>
>I got packet traces of the google voice call, but regrettably cannot
>share them due to the contents of the call. They are "interesting",
>and if I get a chance I'll write up what I learned.

You might consider truncating the packets at the end of the headers, and
then translate all the identifying addresses to distinct ones on net 10
(;-))

--dave