I have been using my N800 and skypeOut as a home phone for a while now. The last few weeks, it has been really choppy. I just flashed the new OS update and hoped it would help. It didnt. Everything else runs perfectly fine.

I also tried skypeOut on my laptop with a USB headset. It was even worse. The n800 is actually better. Who woulda thunk it?

Has anyone else noticed the same? I have not tired skype-to-skype calls, just the Skype-to-phone.

also,

I ran bandwidth tests on my laptop, and the N800, and they came out identical, 4785 down, 662 up.

Speed is only one factor, latency is much bigger. I would look to your WiFi/broadband router as the first culprit. I have my router configured to give preference for latency sensitive protocols. I've had this setup for a while since we use VoIP as the main phone. With proper QoS setup I can do ANYTHING including bittorrent and not disturb the voice quality on my line.

With voice services you only need about 50kbps up and down after that it doesn't matter, what does matter is that it can get that 50 *right now* no waiting.

i set my QoS just in case, and it is still happening. very garbled. It is fine on my end some times, but the other end, they claim they hear it right away. i doubt it is my internet as everything else is quite fine. I am not sure i will renew next year.

do you have anything running in background on the tablet? Maybe something you are not aware of? After the bandwidth thing the next think I would think to check is CPU load when Skype is running then when Skype is running.

There was something I read about here that can run w/o a person knowing but for the life of me I can't recall (these tablets are all new to me...and I am lucky I can find the on button.)

Wish I have more of a suggestion because like you I use Skype exclusively as my out going line and as a cellular replacement when out and about (I use EVDO RevA and a bunch of hardware that fits in a small pouch but that is another story...)

Also, your ISP might be throttling anything P2P and their system could think Skype is a P2P app thus throttling it's use and speed on purpose.

For me Skype has been fine but that means nothing for your situation.