Skype to Moscow from California
 

I was just talking to someone in Moscow from my N900 in an Skype-to-Skype call, a long conversation. Sometimes her voice was dropping out completely or becoming garbled. Fortunately, she was talking a lot so she didn't particularly notice -- she said she was hearing everything I said -- so the problem was only her voice coming to me, it appears.

So, any tips for improving call reception for this? I don't think I was running anything at the same time.

It was pretty great to have Skype on the N900 running so well, as I moved around the house, went downstairs and outside while talking to Moscow.

Re: Skype to Moscow from California
 

Maybe you just had variable mobile signal => package dropping for VoIP => signal breaks. Because you were moving around. Not much you can do to boost phone signal except for the generic stuff (avoid enclosed spaces, metal enclosures etc)

Re: Skype to Moscow from California
 

Or maybe WiFi didn't have good reception all the time. Depends what were you running.

Re: Skype to Moscow from California
 

maybe her upload bandwidth was the problem. maybe it was your download bandwidth was being used by someone else on the wifi network if u were using wifi.

Re: Skype to Moscow from California
 

Use landline. You can get a calling card that lets you talk to Moscow for as low as $0.03..$0.07 a minute.