Anche Skype,a volte,può avere qualche problema

[notsafe]

Skype downtime today
Earlier today, we noticed that the number of people online on Skype was falling, which wasn’t typical or expected, so we began to investigate.

Skype isn’t a network like a conventional phone or IM network – instead, it relies on millions of individual connections between computers and phones to keep things up and running. Some of these computers are what we call ‘supernodes’ – they act a bit like phone directories for Skype. If you want to talk to someone, and your Skype app can’t find them immediately (for example, because they’re connecting from a different location or from a different device) your computer or phone will first try to find a supernode to figure out how to reach them.

Under normal circumstances, there are a large number of supernodes available. Unfortunately, today, many of them were taken offline by a problem affecting some versions of Skype. As Skype relies on being able to maintain contact with supernodes, it may appear offline for some of you.

What are we doing to help? Our engineers are creating new ‘mega-supernodes’ as fast as they can, which should gradually return things to normal. This may take a few hours, and we sincerely apologise for the disruption to your conversations. Some features, like group video calling, may take longer to return to normal.

Stay tuned to @skype on Twitter for the latest updates on the situation – and many thanks for your continued patience in the meantime.

http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/skype ... e-20101222

[nyquist]

Ah, ecco perchè tutt'ora non mi si collega

[phobos3576]

Ah, ecco perchè tutt'ora non mi si collega

Anche a me dà tutto il giorno: "Connessione P2P non riuscita".

[DarthSteve]

Approfitto di questo argomento... per sapere quali componenti
(telefono, cuffie, webcam) mi suggerite di prendere...
e il budget disponibile e' al max di 200 euro ca.
- TIA.

----- Auguri e Buone Feste -----

[phobos3576]

Approfitto di questo argomento... per sapere quali componenti
(telefono, cuffie, webcam) mi suggerite di prendere...
e il budget disponibile e' al max di 200 euro ca.
- TIA.

----- Auguri e Buone Feste -----

Per quanto riguarda la webcam, vanno benissimo ad esempio le Logitech C200, C300, C400, C500 (e, in generale, tutte le webcam gestite attraverso il driver UVC).
Io ho la C300 che con meno di 50 € di dà una risoluzione sino a 1280x1024 e il microfono integrato di ottima qualità; viene perfettamente rilevata da Skype, VLC, MPlayer, etc.

[notsafe]

Un post sul Blog di Skype spiega la causa del down:

http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/cio_update.html

[phobos3576]

Un post sul Blog di Skype spiega la causa del down:

http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/cio_update.html

Tanto per cambiare ...

On Wednesday, December 22, a cluster of support servers responsible for offline instant messaging became overloaded. As a result of this overload, some Skype clients received delayed responses from the overloaded servers. In a version of the Skype for Windows client (version 5.0.0152), the delayed responses from the overloaded servers were not properly processed, causing Windows clients running the affected version to crash.

However, around 50% of all Skype users globally were running the 5.0.0.152 version of Skype for Windows, and the crashes caused approximately 40% of those clients to fail. These clients included 25–30% of the publicly available supernodes, also failed as a result of this problem.

[notsafe]

bhe,il problema in questo caso non era di certo l'OS