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The switch from crowdsourced supernodes was mostly about link quality with: - asymetric links (ADSL) - WiFi - usage-based plans - people shutting Skype down
by imhoguy 8y ago
The switch from crowdsourced supernodes was mostly about link quality with:
- asymetric links (ADSL)
- WiFi
- usage-based plans
- people shutting Skype down on varous occassions,
- suspended laptops,
- bandwidth competing applications (video).
I remember past Skype had lot of quality issues, sometimes connection was very choppy, dropped unexpectedly, or took long time to establish.
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoI said this downthread, but I'd happily put up with those quality issues (and I remember them, they were real!) in return for the reduced latency.
- Causality1 8y agoCurrent Skype still has those same issues. I'm lucky if I go a day without some bizarre "I can hear you but you can't hear me" type bug or a dropped call.