Anyone else having issues with Skype to Thailand lately?

[Mescalito 19]

The soon-to-be-missus and I have daily video calls on Skype, but this past week it's been practically impossible. We can barely get the calls to connect, much less get fully on-line and stay connected. She connects to the 'net via an AIS wireless aircard on her laptop, and I connect from either the wireless connection to my DSL at home or the wireless network in whatever hotel I'm in while traveling for business here in the US. I can get a connection if I use Skype to call her on her cell phone, but even that has been shaky; I can hear her, but she can rarely hear me.

 

Anyone else experiencing this? Any solutions?

[bigdelta 46]

I haven't had any issues this week with 4 calls Skype to Skype.

[joekicker 53]

Yeah I use it person-to-person and also some paid calls to landlines, it has been fine lately. If I had to guess, I'd guess AIS as the outsider and thus the culprit.

 

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[jimmac 66]

I had a crap connection yesterday. The audio was terrible, breaking up, but the video not too bad.

[Siam Sam 964]

We have had no issues with it.

[MM 6,562]

I had a skype call from the USA yesterday, and I told the caller he sounded like he was in a fish tank blowing bubbles.

 

It was awful.

[jacko 8,814]

I stopped using Skype from Thailand to UK landlines as I could never get a good connection in the past, and I always felt it was a limitation of my TOT ADSL connection. Instead I used a CAT card and my mobile.

But recently I went back to my $20 Skype credit and the calls worked fine.

 

I am thinking the AIS wireless aircard is the limiting factor. How about the times you are communicating or her location.... likely the data transmission gets a lower priority/speed if the Thai mobile network is being well used.

Edited December 17, 2011 by jacko

[sailingbill 1,032]

Did a 3 way conference between Thai teacher in the UK (found her farang and made the move) Myself in the states and a TLL girl in Bangkok.

No issues . .

[Mescalito 19]

We've generally had very good connections; sometimes the video and audio is near-TV quality. This past week, though, it's been pretty much impossible to maintain a Skype-to-Skype connection. Frustrating as hell.

[jacko 8,814]

I tried it yesterday about 4pm....crap.