The Underscore Archives

I think I'm going to have to revise my no-landline plan - I agree that for
clients and important calls the drop in quality is a pain. In fact it is the
UK-UK calls that are the biggest problem - long distance people expect a
drop in quality (or time lag), and as previously mentioned, conference calls
are expected to be a little flaky (especially as my conference calls often
have people in 4 different continents... generally Mumbai and Nairobi
compete for least-clear!
Skype has been a saviour with the work I've been doing recently - I'm
currently in a hotel in Chicago, and with ports blocked on the free network
connection, and the "high speed" pay network giving around 200kbits, the one
thing that has worked perfectly has been Skype, with audio channels being
kept open back to the UK for hours at a time. And just had a 10 min video
chat with GF back in Bristol - worked fine.

F.

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Fraser Stephens