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Is Skype Working?

AlwaysSomething
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Hi,
Wednesday December 22nd. 5pm. I've been trying to connect to skype for over an hour with no luck. I've rebooted, reset my router, and even downgraded the software version which changed recently. Still no luck. Internet is working fine for everything else.
Is Skype working for anybody else right now?
Thanks
Wednesday December 22nd. 5pm. I've been trying to connect to skype for over an hour with no luck. I've rebooted, reset my router, and even downgraded the software version which changed recently. Still no luck. Internet is working fine for everything else.
Is Skype working for anybody else right now?
Thanks
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Skype is currently down
http://twitter.com/#!/Skype/status/17624508332515328
Some of you may have problems signing in to Skype – we’re investigating, and we’re sorry for the disruption to your conversations
keep an eye on:
http://heartbeat.skype.com/
The support site is timing out on me. the site in general is running slow..Laters
Sol
"Have you found the secrets of the universe? Asked Zebade "I'm sure I left them here somewhere"0 -
Yep, they're obviously having 'issues':
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101222094553AAESuhN
Oh yes... and I've tried turning it off and on again...0 -
likewise,.....can't connect here either0
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They have annouced they are down and working on it, been down for a whileSurvey earnings total 2009 £417, 2010 £875, 2011 £5740
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Yep its been taking ages to sign me in so I just gave up.You are 48% tight
"You're frugal, you're thrifty, but on this site that's a little bit fab."0 -
Back on today - but had to re-sign in0
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IMO Skype is not a serious VOIP provider - limited features, non standard protocols and now massive wide scale outages. I don't know why people bother.0
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thescouselander wrote: »IMO Skype is not a serious VOIP provider - limited features, non standard protocols and now massive wide scale outages. I don't know why people bother.0
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This is a bootstrap issue
Skype works by using P2P.. so lets pretend every server in the world goes down at the same time... then, when they all try to come back up at the same time, there's no seeds to connect to?
Now let's say Skype put up one seed, everyone comes back up and tries to connect to that seed DOS'ing it.... seed goes down, back to square one.
They had one problem yesterday, which then caused a domino effect and now they're just trying to boot up seeds globally so people can log in. As everyone keeps trying to log in it's DOSing the seeds etc...
Will be resolved by this evening I imagine.[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
- Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate[/FONT]0 -
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