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Can anyone help me fix my Skype?
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I bought a Linksys CIT300 phone that's supposed to work with Skype at my
cabin. I have Wild Blue satellite service. I can't get the phone to work
with Skype. I've read the manuals, and Skype sent me a list of things to
do, which I did.
First I got garbled sound, now nothing. I'm about ready to chuck this, but
I have heard of others having good luck with it. It is the last resort for
phone service at our cabin. Other than that, we have to drive three miles
to the mountaintop to use the cell.
Help would be appreciated.
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There is way too much latency in your Wild Blue service to use VoIP.
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Satellite round trip delay tends to hose anything "real time" like
voice, video, VPN, etc. If you have a high speed connection at another
location with access to a land line, you *might* have better luck
operating your own VoIP bridge so you have control of both ends and can
set longer timeouts, etc. Not a particularly simple project.
Pete C.
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Satellite service is generally not recommended for Skype, or any other
real-time network systems (like online games, webcam chat, etc). I've
got Wildblue also, and while the download speeds are acceptable when
compared to dialup, the ping response time (how long it takes for a
single packet to get to it's destination and then back again) is
abysmal.
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You might look into something like this for your cellphone:
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Don't you also have to pay for bandwidth with your satellite service? If
so, I would not use Skype or any other VoIP service for that matter. Skype
is even worse than others because your bandwidth will also be used by
other people since it's a peer-to-peer service, meaning everyone shares.
It would be fine if you had a broadband connection with free bandwidth but
on a satellite Internet bandwidth charges could be steep.
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Charges to a non Skype user to call you, or you to call them are $.021 per
minute, which converts to two cents a minute. As per bandwidth, we are not
there long enough or often enough to approach the limitations. If one does
get close, they just slow you down until you catch up with the quota. This
is the last ditch resort to get some type of phone service at the cabin
without getting an incredibly expensive satellite phone.
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Is it in a totally remote area with absolutely no cell service in the
general area?
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[8~{} Uncle Monster
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