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| Thread ID: 110838 | 2010-07-03 09:45:00 | Skype,does it chew up your broadband. | as38camp (15866) | Press F1 |
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| 1115609 | 2010-07-03 20:34:00 | thats why you set ms updates to alert you but not download until your ready. havent installed any windows updates yet, i put xp on this like 2 months ago. i really need to download them this is about skype not windows updates... |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 1115610 | 2010-07-03 22:43:00 | I use Skype for probably 1hr a day and get by on 2gig a month including other browsing. I think the trick is not to have it start-up on boot and turn it off when you’ve finished using it. I read somewhere that if you leave it running the whole time, your computer becomes a “node” or something and everybody uses your bandwidth. :confused: One thing for sure, there is no such thing as a “Free Lunch”. ;) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1115611 | 2010-07-03 23:39:00 | I don't use Skype at all | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1115612 | 2010-07-04 00:08:00 | vodafone say 2GB = 12 hours skype | kountryken (14110) | ||
| 1115613 | 2010-07-04 00:08:00 | Me and my family was enjoying Skype calling overseas not realising why my internet usage was skyrocketing and taking out up to $25 from my pokcet every month! I thought of my kids were playing around with FaceBook, UTube etc too much. Then by chance, I realised from Telstra that the streaming of Skype eats up the allocated Plan. So eventually had to change it to accommodate this (free?) luxury! |
namboothiri (14469) | ||
| 1115614 | 2010-07-04 01:49:00 | Will it is free. If you were making a toll call overseas you would be paying for the time talking as will as monthly telco bill, but with Skype you are only paying your monthly ISP account and nothing else. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1115615 | 2010-07-04 06:57:00 | Skype automatically adjusts it's quality. If you have a lot of bandwidth, you'll get better quality calls. If you have a slow connection, you'll get lower quality and less bandwidth requirements. Because of the switching between different codecs and qualities, there are no "hard and fast" rules, but rather rough amounts you're likely to use. In NZ, because of ADSL's limited upload speed, the odds of you becoming a supernode are very slim indeed. If you're on a symmetrical connection with decent upstream, that may be another matter entirely. See here: support.skype.com Or: support.skype.com Of course, you'll use more if you're going to be video calling. Hopefully that'll give you a good indication of what kind of bandwidth you need. Generalizations such as "You should have 2GB, or 10GB, or 1GB won't be enough" are poor representations of how much of your data cap Skype will actually use. Ignore them ;) Lets do a small amount of mathcraft: You're on a call which is using (at most) 16KB/sec From what I can gather that's for both sending and receiving so we don't have to double it (I only say that because g711 uncompressed is 64kbps before IP overheads for 1-way audio). Then multiply that by 60 seconds, and then by 60 mins to give us an hours worth of data use, and we have: 57600KB Divide by 1024 and we have 56.25MB, without factoring in other IP overheads. So, if you didn't do anything else for the month, on your 1GB connection, you'd get around 17-18 hours worth of calling before going over your data cap. It could be less though, depending on what Skype auto-selects as the best quality way to compress your audio, based on your connection. Hope this helps Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1115616 | 2010-07-04 09:13:00 | I have just installed Skype and have made my first few video calls Skype to Skype.I have only a 1 Gb broadband plan,and although I understand Skype calls such as these are free,my data usage seems to have skyrocketed.Could someone with more knowledge than me,tell me if these type of calls do in fact use up your data. Kill the video and just use voice. |
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