[Bloat] Skype

[Michael Welzl <michawe@ifi.uio.no>]

Hi,

I have repeatedly noticed that Skype sometimes, in a long conversation  
involving video, can create massive audio delays (in the order of  
multiple seconds). This has happened to me in a conversation from a  
hotel room in the US to my home in Oslo (where, apologies, I haven't  
yet looked into de-bloating my modem and access point), and from my  
office in Oslo to someone else's office in the US.

I'm wondering: was that always due to bloated equipment along the path  
(including the end hosts), or does Skype poorly handle its internal  
buffers?

Any experiences? I suppose the way to find out is to run Skype over a  
verifiably de-bloated path. If, then, the problem never occurs, the  
fault is with the equipment and not with Skype (and vice versa).

Cheers,
Michael