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- Aero1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+39and so begins the great skype outage of 2007! quick, someone make a wiki entry.
- KYSully, on 10/10/2007, -0/+30The hot question will be "Where were you when Skype went down?"
- chkmate21, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15atleast every american knows that know is know NOT no
- KingLeo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14Skype is awesome. I use it every day mainly for business, but also to stay in touch with my family 600 miles away. My parents get to see their granddaughter via skype video chat (it works better than iChat most of the time).
This is the first time Skype's been down in the 3+ years I've been a member. - schroeder, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1212-24 hours is not a long time especially considering years of relatively uninterrupted service. Services go down from time to time, that's life. Power goes out, phone lines go down, cable goes down, satellites go down. People are starting to depend too much on technology to the point where a small inconvenience is a cause for despair. It's really not a big deal. And if uninterrupted services are so important to people then it's their responsibility to have contingency services to stay connected.
- 4degrees, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9hmm, skype going down for a while to "fix" something, and so soon after the warrant-less wire tapping was deemed "ok". makes one think.
- SpreadTruth, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10An unexpected inconvenience.
The authentication servers must be centralized at Skype’s main datacenter, while other communications is decentralized. I wonder what it would require to decentralize authentication…
It will be interesting to see how long it is offline. - thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Skype is great - never had a problem in 2 years of use. I'm sure they'll sort it out. I get tired of the incredibly high standards everyone now expects from everything all of the time no matter what or someone must get fired. Things go wrong sometimes and I think companies need a bit of leeway. If Skype were ***** up often, it would be a whole different story, but this is a first for them in years. Give 'em a break.
- Typhoon2009, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8So that explains why it's been showing the two arrows spinning all day.
- djSyndrome, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9At least every American knows that "atleast" is not "at least".
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9I can now stop fiddling with my firewall settings.
- Hunterville, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Hmm so since I'm a satisfied customer that can weather a temporary outage without pissing in my pants. I'm a sucker
Apparently not everyone is a dickwad that freaks out at the drop of a hat. - CosmicJustice, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Lighten up Francis. ***** happens. Skype is up 999 days out of a thousand.
- mrswirl, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I guess somebody here is willing to pay for five-9's reliablity then.
Don't complain when you get your next bill and it's suddenly 1000% higher. - schroeder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4eBay has had skype for a long while now.
- Piedramente, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8This is why you don't depend on Skype as your sole phone line.
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I'm waiting for someone to make a wiki entry.... and attribute the outage to digg.
- graviplana, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype
United States, CALEA 2006
"In May 2006, the FCC successfully applied the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act to allow wiretapping on digital phone networks. Skype is not yet compliant to the Act, and has so far stated that they do not plan to become compliant.[35]"
http://www.voip-news.com/feature/skype-calea-compliance-061206/
I'll bet 50 DIGG bucks they're compliant now. - CraigJ, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4typing error < spelling error
- plncrzy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Company is too cheap to give you a......... phone?
- link470, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Hmm...maybe their "[COMPLETED]" planned maintenance yesterday didn't quite go as planned... http://heartbeat.skype.com
- whackjob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Has this even hit the Digg main page yet? or at least the main RSS feed? It should...
- shadowspawn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3AT&T is messing with them. Just hunt around on nanog.
- graviplana, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Installing the monitoring system for the Skype network is a serious undertaking.
- alberto24, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Thirty more reporting in here on Skype outages worldwide:
http://www.centernetworks.com/skype-down
Jalapeno - yep, I remember that too. I think the key here is that just like Yahoo, Skype is a service people pay for and depend on. - iarenzana, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4So what was the name of it? oh, yeah, Gizmo.
- pr0vidence, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Let's do a little math, shall we?
If 1 in 20 Americans "no" about Skype, that is:
302,620,731 / 20 (current US population, according to cencus.gov, divided by 20)
That comes out to: 15,131,036 and some change people "no" about Skype. Seems pretty significant to me, I would be hard pressed to say "know" one gives a ***** (in your world, if no=know, I can only assume know=no). - mozillamonks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Reading Digg of course!
- rzurad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3you kidding? This is better than crop-circles!
- rob357, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3skype
skype in
skype out
skype down - MACaroni, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2no, it appears to be, but check your status icon or try to make a call.
- jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You've got a really good point there. We're likely to see differences in how our phones work if you pay attention to the little clicks and audible cues when calls are transferred. There's also been a lot of problems with PCS phones calling Vonage; somehow the PCS > Cell > POTS > Internet conversion is breaking now all of the sudden.
- Hunterville, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2you have a broad definition of the word immediately
- thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Lemme try: "every" makes "at least" redundant.
- tommyredcoat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2anyone know if inbound calls will still be routed to your voice-mail successfully?
- longboarder543, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2More like, "Where were you when the Skype logo wouldn't stop turnin', that August day." (In your best country twang of course)
- hordak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2His company is probably PAYING for his Skype service...
- Urgo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's back up for me now.
[Edit] Well.. it was up. I made a call, and now its down again. - strom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The Skypenet funding bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. ... Skypenet begins to learn, at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. eastern time, August 17
- rgaino, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2A lot. I use it very frequently to speak to my family abroad.
- ozydingo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Amen for SIP / other open protocols. Gizmo Project (www.gizmoproject.com) is one I've user, works well. Cheaper thae Skype too, for most calls.
- abandonedhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2We'd really appreciate it if you stopped using that signature. Especially considering that Digg != e-mail.
- raynar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2unlimited cell phone plans are cheap. and portable.
- martinnn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I'm pretty sure the person who caused it has learned a lot during the last "12-24 hours" and that he won't make the same mistake again so there's really no point in firing him...
- djSyndrome, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Did you stop and think that maybe the problem was on the other end, what with the earthquake and all?
- ozydingo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2SIP FTW!
(I can't believe I just posted a FTW comment...) - ozydingo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Where abroad? Consider gizmo project (www.gizmoproject.com) - cheaper for almost all countries. Also open-network; that is to say SIP / Jabber, so for PC-to-PC calls and chat it can communicate with other programs such as Google Talk. That fact alone makes me support it over Skype.
- MariusVW, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Skype is not a reliable replacement for a real phone system... they have never maintained as much and have stated so. It's not the same quality as a normal phone network and as such it cannot be used for an emergency type call.
That said, geez... don't they have a back-up? - ozydingo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1www.gizmoproject.com
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