Skype Call Quality
 

Anyone else suffering with skype call quality issues on both 3G and Wifi?

I've set up a SkypeIn number (now called Skype Online Number I think) and when I have a friend call this number from his mobile it seems the quality his end goes from being great to being really quite terrible where it's just a mash of words and he can't hear what I'm saying - there's no pattern to this.

There are a couple of points here though:

1) If this just happened over 3G (I'm with Vodafone UK) then that would at least explain it (maybe traffic filtering etc) and I could look at maybe just using it with Wifi. However, it appears to be just as bad with Wifi - and I have a decent (20Mbit) internet connection at home.

2) Even more frustrating, throughout the entire time he experiences variable call quality, I can hear the feed from his mobile clear as a bell and it never drops. It's as if the packets are being recieved by the n900 fine but not sent so well.

I was wanting to use the Skype number for business purposes as a second line to the phone so I'm really hoping to get this sorted. I'm quite willing to install updated packages from devel or test etc.

Has anyone experienced this issue? I've had a dig round the forum and it seems a lot of people have perfect call quality and I can't see a huge amount of people having quality issues. So why is mine so bad, even over WiFi? Any ideas? Is it worth going with a different SIP provider and setting this up in the phone? Will it integrate as well as Skype does?

Thanks

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ive done alot of skype calls recently via msotly wifi and its all fine here though all my cals are skype to skype (mates 3 mobile to n900 and vice versa) he uses 3g im on wifi

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the only constant here is your friend have you tried aother callers or connections yet?

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Good point malabar. I have just phoned my parent's land-line over Wifi and the quality was fine for a 10 minute call, we both heard every word. More investigation is needed I think.

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This report confirms my feelings:

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Skype-Ph...w-1498-13.html

What are people's thoughts? Is this a fair assessment?

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I just made a video call to my sister and we had constant quality inside the room with the router and even when i walked around the house. it started breaking up when i walked a good distance from the house but we nevel lost contact. I was on for at least 10 minutes.

I was on the opposite side of the house and quality remained the same.

edit i guess that's not really the same thing because the call did not go back to a phone number it went to another internet connection:o

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Well, I've always had erratic quality on skype video calls on my PC, so I have really low expectations for the N900.

When right next to my router, wifi video calls over Skype are ok, medium quality. Upstairs, the quality is pretty much unacceptable. The same goes when I try to call from on campus and the routers are physically far away. Choppy sound, miserable video quality.

Just voice calls over skype, however, have worked great for me in any situation. I find that skype-to-phone works even better than skype-to-skype.

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Well, I tried it some more this evening phoning landlines, reciving calls from landlines and mobiles and it was bang on! Only thing that changed is a reboot...

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I can't get decent phone reception on Skype OR on cellular using 3G or WIFI. I sent my phone in for repair and was issued a new phone. But the same problem exists.

Bristoldave: reboot of your phone or reboot of your wireless?

I need reliable Skype to phone calling, but I'm not getting it. My 5800 Xpress phone does perfect Skype to phone and SKype to Skype on WIFI. The only problem is that it doesn't do 3G on T-Mobile so I can't use it away from a LAN or WAN. If there were some way to change the 3G frequency to make it compatible with T-Mobile, I do it in a heartbeat.

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Reboot of the phone. I have to say recently I've experienced much better call quality on Skype, I think some of that was down to updating to PR1.2...

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To the op, the call quality u explain when ur talkin to ur mate is the same when I speak to my ex and ONLY when I speak to her via a normal phone call. she has an iphone 3gs from o2 and when it starts going crazy all words are just fuzzy and mashed but she can hear me. like ive said I have NEVER had this with any other caller, just her.

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I've had no problems with skype voice quality (to phone and to skype) over wifi.

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i use skype over 3g and it is flawless. the call quality is exactly the same as GSM (or at least my ears can't tell the difference. :D).

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Well , i have noticed a terrible quality drop in skype calls after pr 1.2
Even worse , N900 to linux skype is terrible. The other person can hear me just fine, but i hear lots of hiccups and i have to hang and call again... A little overclock have improved the situation calling to windows skype. But most of my friends and family uses linux so n900 is unfortunately a bad choice to call linux users , at least mine is.

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I have also had bad experiences with Skype and 3G since 1.2. In fact I get better call quality using 2G. I know I have no problems with speed because I haved no broadband at home so use 3G tethering from my laptop and when I can't stand Skype on the N900 anymore I move to my laptop throught that same connection and it is fine.

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Same here. Skype works well over th wifi but as soon as i will switch to 3G my call wont last longer then few secs and then hiccaups starts. It seems that internet on N900 drains loads of resources and hardware is simply not sufficent to keep up with call. Im with T-mobile UK and made base interne speed test and download was at 1.5Mbps while upload was 380kbps what should be enough to make a call. i wonder is there any way of changing skype quality to lower parhaps that will solve the problem. BTW. my mate has E71 in 3 network and it works flawlessly. Shurly there must be the way to sort it out.

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Anyone having problems should submit a trouble ticket with Skype. I did and I think if more people do it we have that much more of a chance that they'd fix it in 1.3. My 3G here in LA is about 5 Mb/s down and 1.25 Mb/s up so I know its not a bandwidth issue.

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Vote for the bug in my signature. I am facing similar problems although with sip connection. The calls gets minced few minutes into the call however the remote party can hear me well.