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From: Michael Welzl <michawe@ifi.uio.no>
To: bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.NET>
Subject: [Bloat] Skype
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:57:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <647D57F5-24CE-4006-AD2A-74141C84C3CB@ifi.uio.no> (raw)

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


             reply	other threads:[~2012-11-18 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-18 14:57 Michael Welzl [this message]
2012-11-18 16:09 ` Alex Burr
2012-11-19 10:27 Ingemar Johansson S
2012-11-19 10:36 ` Dave Taht
2012-11-19 13:25 ` Michael Welzl
2012-11-19 18:23   ` Matt Mathis

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