Declan Murphy wrote:
> Scott Reynolds wrote:
>> CL wrote:
> <snip>
>>> You can get very old waiting for Skype to answer you.  They give
>>> themselves a 72 hour window and, if you're an international phone call
>>> junkie, like me, that is an eternity.
>> I can imagine. If the problem with SkypeOut is never resolved but I can
>> use Skype to talk to other users I'll still be satisfied. It would be
>> nice to have the whole thing working, though.
> 
> Scott, if you do get some sort of resolution of the SkypeOut problem
> can you let me know too? The time lag issue seems to be fairly
> widespread, so it may just be an issue that will disappear over time,
> but I haven't had any useful response from Skype as yet.

I did get a response from them, but it was mainly the usual "check your 
audio device settings and try calling echo123" business. In other words, 
they were not really addressing the SkypeOut problem specifically.

I also poked around in the Skype forums. There seem to be some people 
who are having problems similar to ours, and their standard response 
seems to be this:

"The problem is likely with the gateway providers not your setup.

The only solution besides waiting is to:
Report each failed call to pstn-feedback@skype.net with your location, 
time of day of call and the complete phone number you were calling and 
of course what happened. Without this information there is not much 
Skype can do to fix your problem."

I still have about $8.50 worth of SkypeOut credit, and I plan to keep 
making test calls once a day until it runs out. The longest call 
duration I have managed so far is about one minute.

In the meantime, why don't you Skype me sometime and we can see how the 
delay is between Tokyo and Okazaki?

-- 
_______________________________________________________________
Scott Reynolds                              scottreyn@gmail.com