Re: Sype In as a phone replacement
 

Your ADSL speed should be sufficient.

If you want to test something else...try turning encryption off at the router/AP temporarily and retest. Don't simply use SKYPE CALL TESTING SERVICE to test. Place a N800 Skype call to someone for many minutes. Also do a bandwidth speed test of your ISP and verify you are really getting the full speed you expect to be getting. Last week my broadband, which is typically 10megabit per second, tested to only be about 317k. My ISP had this sluggish performance for many hours.

Re: Sype In as a phone replacement
 

I just returned from my buddy's place where he has a NetGear wireless router/AP and broadband. I changed my N800's Wlan_sleep_timeout parameter from the default (200 milliseconds?) to 1000milliseconds. I cannot say conclusively that it did make an improvement with Skype at his location because I didn't make enough Skype-Out calls, and for a sufficient duration to feel confident in the test, but the calls I did make "seemed" to be improved over the same calls a few days ago there (at his place) with my N800 Wlan_sleep_timeout setting at the default.

I need to do more testing, but I might have observed a benefit to the increased timeout setting.

More on this at a later date.

Re: Sype In as a phone replacement
 

I am getting consistent call drops with SkypeIn/Out service and N800. That just sucks so much... changed wlan timeout to 1000 - doesn't affect it. I am working off old linksys "b" access point, but also tried it off the university network.

i tried it from PC in the same LAN, but wired, and it works just fine. so not internet connection issue (or at least it doesn't show with PC version)

so far it seems that skype does indeed studder and drops the call after that, but i am very inclined to think it's the software issue with PSTN connections, since skype-skype works perfectly.

i am trying gizmo now (incoming via grandcentral), and so far i had a 10 minute call with no drops. so it's skype.


already submitted ticket to Skype, but i think it's not likely they will do anything about it...

Re: Sype In as a phone replacement
 

I would refrain from testing Skype on a university network. Almost every university has a policy against the use of Skype on it's computer network. I cut and pasted the following from the University of Cambridge website. This is typical of policy at universities.

"....agreement to the Skype EULA is clearly in violation of the University's Authorization for Use of the network use policy."

I would refrain from testing Skype on a university network. Universities may have ways of detecting a Skype call in progress on it's network (or the Skype client running on any machines connected to it's network) and interrupt it's activity. If you are going to do testing, I'd also refrain from using results acquired on any testing done on open networks like those found in public WiFi HotSpots. If you are having problems with the N800 and Skype, I would recommend testing / troubleshooting only on networks you own and control.

There are large numbers of variables that are complicated and difficult to control with when troubleshooting on networks which you own / control. When you try doing this on public networks things get even more out of control.

For what its worth, I just finished a 43 minute Skype-Out call to a friend of mine using the N800 and Skype. The call was placed, the conversation commenced and continued without interruption or being dropped. This excellent performance is typical when I use my N800 with Skype so long as I am in my network cloud. My friend did report a few short gaps in my voice over the 43 minute call, but he said overall it worked very well. I did not detect any gaps in his voice over the 43 minutes and in all fairness to Skype and the N800 I was walking around my office building the much of the time I was talking to him.

I have a Linksys WRT54G Version 4.0 running factory (Linksys) firmware. My ISP is RoadRunner. Currently they are providing an advertised 10Mb/second down and 384Kb up. I occasionally test this by using one of the popular Internet speed testers and I often see over 8Mb down and 350+up speeds to a desktop machine wired to the WRT54G. Also, if it helps, I am located in the North Eastern United States.

Re: Sype In as a phone replacement
 

I just tested the speed my ISP was providing today. I did this directly on the N800 wirelessly steering the browser (unsure if it is running MicroB or Opera at the moment) to the Speakeasy website.

The N800 reports 4782kbps down, and 350kbps up. It is 2:20PM my time. Skype on my N800 is working great today.