Skype 2.0

[tom9933]

Just wondered if anyone else has tried or is using this yet. I recently upgraded and did some calls this weekend and was rather impressed. There are a few tweaks that need to be made to the ui and of course you don’t get the bells and whistles like content or fecc but overall it’s a very nice little product! The only thing I haven’t tried is a multipoint but in point to point calls it’s very usable even with an upstream bandwidth of 100k. Hard to believe a free product is getting this good.

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[mazzarak]

Hi Tom

I've used it a couple of times with family over the internet and it seemed pretty stable. I'd used Spontania previously, and I can't really see any difference between the two, we're on 1MB broadband. I think its fantastic that this product is still free :D

[senthil]

yes true. I am using for our bussiness and tech support for our customers.its really good software.

Senthil

[tom9933]

Have either of you tried using it in a multipoint? I know the audio works that way but didn’t know if the video did as well. Hrmm I wonder what it would take to make a Skype to H.323 or SIP Gateway.

[nordal]

Yup, long live Janus Friis, the great Dane and co-creator of Skype :laugh:

[Timur]

By the way there is webcollaboration tool:
http://skype.unyte.net/skype/en-us/download.html
It works very good.

[Rene]

Have either of you tried using it in a multipoint? I know the audio works that way but didn’t know if the video did as well. Hrmm I wonder what it would take to make a Skype to H.323 or SIP Gateway.

If one has interest in this field, check out Wigiwigi.com
The software presented on this forum is way from ready, has a poor user interface, in short - is in full development.

But it does show what is possible in the quality vs BW field with fluent sound/video delivery, and there are also some multipoint P2P (!) test-builds. (some are 12-way, and work with modest ADSL upload capacities)

IMHO it surpasses fullblown H264 quality, in demonstrator executables usually smaller than 500KB. (no installing, no DLL's, no registries - download and run in under 15 seconds)

Try it - then compare with Skype. Or Vcon. Or PVX. If nothing else, it's fun to play with.

[smoody]

Just wondered if anyone else has tried or is using this yet. I recently upgraded and did some calls this weekend and was rather impressed. There are a few tweaks that need to be made to the ui and of course you don’t get the bells and whistles like content or fecc but overall it’s a very nice little product! The only thing I haven’t tried is a multipoint but in point to point calls it’s very usable even with an upstream bandwidth of 100k. Hard to believe a free product is getting this good.

Thoughts, Comments

Hey Tom,

I'm also very impressed with Skype's video/audio quality, especially being free. However one potential issue I came across while doing some research has to do with "supernodes" and how it could potentially adversly effect a network segment. I'd encourage you and everyone else interested on using Skype to do some research around the supernode issue and decide if it's right for your specific environment.

[tom9933]

Ah yes I remember reading something about that long ago. As I recall it was a discussion about supernodes eating all of your bandwidth. I’ll have to look into that again as I don’t remember all the specifics, but I do remember it was an issue that brought up some concern in the internet community.
Thanks for the reminder :)

[bestown]

Is 2.0 a beta version?