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Old 11-11-2008, 04:29 PM
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Originally Posted by aukxsona View Post
Have Skype, the free service was awesome but now that we are paid (60$ for a year) it never works. We have tried to configure it for our computer, bought new head phones and a new jack. Nothing. I won't be buying it next year. The only GOOD thing it does is collect our business messages rather well, but calling out leaves people confused and unable to hear us.
Actually I ended up choosing Skype as well, and -- knock on wood -- it's going pretty well. I did have one problem. The call quality was really good as long as only one person was talking. As soon as I and the other person was talking at the same time, everything got all garbled. (Even worse on conference calls.)

Basically I had to make a change to my firewall to allow Skype to use its preferred incoming port, rather than the alternative port (HTTP port 80). That seemed to make a big difference.
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