[X4U] Skype

[Simon Forster]

On 13 Sep 2006, at 03:27, Michael Elliott wrote:

> Yes, Paul, but what is the upload speed from the person who you are  
> downloading from?  That's the question that is so hard to figure  
> out.  (Although one would think that if there is enough bandwidth  
> to use Skpe audio chatting, that there would be enough to quickly  
> download a file).

I don't think it's that simple in as much as Skype appears to run  
some sort of quality of service (QOS) routine - which makes sense.  
Certainly, I've noticed that if someone sends me a file as I'm  
(audio) chatting to them, the speed is miserable - like, give up  
miserable. However, same person, (text) chatting and file comes down  
OK(ish). Although generally my perception of Skype's file sending  
service is that it's slow. Fine for small files but send bigger files  
some other route.

Simon Forster
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