Quote Originally Posted by Captain Sensible
Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog
Im on dial up cap. and it works
oh yeah. Wally and I tried skyping the other night and it didnee work. We figured that it was coz of his dial up connection. Now I know that it is because he runs a mac. :P
doing my best to keep this off topic

to make skype perform well it's a little bit more complicated than that Cap.
...actually properly configured Macs g4/g5 macmini ibooks etc perform quite well under skype
if you're not too finicky spending additional money like a couple three thousand baht to buy a
USB ready microphone and external sound card like imic, since these expensive machines like
g5s and macminis don't come with any hardware to connect a microphone to them,
compared to every lowly PC that for donkey's years have had said built-in feature

it's also a combination of how fast everybody's computer is,
if everybody is running on broadband and/or dial-up and
how many people are hogging all the bandwidth at the time of the call

Early in the morning connecting with a m8 of mine in Darwin -- he on dial-up --
the call is crystal clear. Once every Tom, Dick and Harry and Somchai and Manop get online
forget about using Skype with dial-up. We switch to Yahoo IM voice (the old Yahoo Internet messenger,
that is, not their last version 7... It aint worth a figg)