# skype 1.0 problems

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by Illiniman04 (Generic Zoner) on Monday, 20-Sep-2004 14:03:58

Hi guys.
Has anyone else installed the newest skype? If you have, how is it working for you?
I find that for me, the voice quality is horrible, and it often breaks up altogether, so that I cannot hear a single word the other person is saying. This happens even when the other person has a cable connection like mine. Interestingly, this never happened with any of the beta versions of skype.
I have downgraded to the beta version .98, but no quality has returned. Do any of you have suggestions?

## Post 2 by hlast (Generic Zoner) on Tuesday, 21-Sep-2004 19:55:05

HI,
That's an interesting situation you're having. What operating system do you use? I have 1.0.0.29, which is the latest version and it works just fine on my Dell system running Window XP home edition with 1.4 GHz processor and 512 MB ram.

## Post 3 by smudge (the Zone BBS remains forever my home page) on Wednesday, 22-Sep-2004 10:42:36

it might have nothing to do with skype but the band width at time of connection.

## Post 4 by Illiniman04 (Generic Zoner) on Tuesday, 19-Oct-2004 1:45:57

Hi guys. Sorry it has taken me over a month to respond to this original topic.
Anyway I am using windows XP professional on a machine with 640 MB of ram. The processor is a bit on the slow side (600 MHZ) but that did not stop skype from working well in the past.

## Post 5 by rdfreak (THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE-BLUE KANGA-KICKIN AUSIE) on Tuesday, 19-Oct-2004 4:06:50

I've heard of similar problems myself. where the quality has been down from the beta version so when they go to downgrade it doesn't do anything. I am personally really happy with skype for me. it works great! .. if I am uploading at the same time it's not always crash hot because unfortunately I don't get much bandwidth for that but that's about all .. I do hope you can get yours sorted as I am really happy with it and think it's the best telephony program I've used for the net. :)
Cheers! :)

## Post 6 by Illiniman04 (Generic Zoner) on Wednesday, 20-Oct-2004 2:13:44

I agree. Skype definitely rocks when it works correctly. And it takes verry little bandwidth. I have been in conference calls with people on 56 K modems and it has been just fine. I just hope they can figure something out that fixes the issues for me and other users