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>You have whole industries (gaming, video streaming, VoIP) that will laugh at you if you send time critical data over TCP and rightly so Skype uses TCP, no? La
by tormeh 11y ago
>You have whole industries (gaming, video streaming, VoIP) that will laugh at you if you send time critical data over TCP and rightly so
Skype uses TCP, no? Laugh, indeed.
- douche 11y agoSkype does many things, not all of them the greatest. For instance, it breaks all my HttpListener-based .NET code when it is running.
- tokenizerrr 11y agoFor some reason skype listens on port 80 and 443. You can turn this off in the settings.
- Too 11y agoThis might finally explain why the video quality is so bad then. If you tried any commercial video call software it's quite hard to look back to skype.
- tormeh 11y agoGoogle Hangouts isn't much better. I would assume it's more about the constraints of free services than anything else. If you're talking about systems like Cisco Telepresence, then those are obviously not comparable because of (lots of) dedicated hardware, better connections etc.