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YeOldeStonecat
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I'm wondering if this one client of mine is outgrowing Skype.
Client has main office in NYC...where I'm at now. 4-5 staff usually at this office. They usually run Skype from headsets on their individual PCs
Branch office over in Connecticut near my office.
Another single person branch office down in Brazil.
Another staff person working from home in NY.
When they do conference calls with 3, 4, 5 people...it's fine, Skype works great.
But when their one staff member from Brazil is in the Skype conference call, after some <random> amount of minutes into the call, it will suddenly cut out on everyone...the entire conference call goes dead for all like everyone "hung up".
Now, the NYC office usually "initiates" the call, they're on a 15/2 cable connection.
I have an Untangle firewall running on a Dell PowerEdge R200 there....Duo Core and 2 gigs of RAM. IMO plenty of power for that office with usually just 4x staff and a Small Biz server.
I'm wondering if Skype just is too....for home users or 2-3 people like..and Skype itself isn't really meant for 6 or more people in one call? Or if there's something related to the likely poor internet connection of the one staff member in Brazil? But then..why wouldn't that one Brazil person just drop out of the conference call..instead of everyone dropping the call at once? Or if maybe there's something with Untangle like the attack blocker that doesn't like too much voip traffic?
Client has main office in NYC...where I'm at now. 4-5 staff usually at this office. They usually run Skype from headsets on their individual PCs
Branch office over in Connecticut near my office.
Another single person branch office down in Brazil.
Another staff person working from home in NY.
When they do conference calls with 3, 4, 5 people...it's fine, Skype works great.
But when their one staff member from Brazil is in the Skype conference call, after some <random> amount of minutes into the call, it will suddenly cut out on everyone...the entire conference call goes dead for all like everyone "hung up".
Now, the NYC office usually "initiates" the call, they're on a 15/2 cable connection.
I have an Untangle firewall running on a Dell PowerEdge R200 there....Duo Core and 2 gigs of RAM. IMO plenty of power for that office with usually just 4x staff and a Small Biz server.
I'm wondering if Skype just is too....for home users or 2-3 people like..and Skype itself isn't really meant for 6 or more people in one call? Or if there's something related to the likely poor internet connection of the one staff member in Brazil? But then..why wouldn't that one Brazil person just drop out of the conference call..instead of everyone dropping the call at once? Or if maybe there's something with Untangle like the attack blocker that doesn't like too much voip traffic?
