Internet Phone Virtually Impossible From Here

[edwardrake]

here being my house. got WIFI in the near-boonies from an independent & most of the time you can get onto sites without too much problem though it deteriorates as the months roll by. he set it up 6 months ago & international speed was about 2.5 Mb, after years on dialup it was nice. speed has dropped gradually to under 1Mb as seems to be the way to the point you cannot make a decent VOIP call, internet calls now garbled garbage.

any boffins out there know why web pages load fairly fast but VOIP calls are impossible? is there some switch they flick to limit what you get? why the difference?

Edited August 14, 2009 by edwardrake

[relayer]

My Skype works great from here. Just try to make your calls later in the evenings and you'll be fine.

[nikster]

Depends on where you are calling - you might be affected by the broken cables near Taiwan?!