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Skype Blames Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Outage 286

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the ddos-ing-yourself dept.
brajesh writes to tell us that Skype has blamed its outage over the last week on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday. Apparently the huge numbers of computers rebooting (and the resulting flood of login requests) revealed a problem with the network allocation algorithm resulting in a couple days of downtime. Skype further stressed that there was no malicious activity and user security was never in any danger.

Comment Forget QOS (Score 1) 362

by CoreDump (#11682856) Attached to: VoIP for Deployed Soldiers?
QOS is not what you need to focus on.

Latency in this application will kill your sound quality far more than a few dropped packets. Optimally you'll want to be under 300ms for things to be manageable.

The other main thing to look for is a CODEC you can use with your chosen provider that uses as little bandwidth as possible and supports loss concealment. You need to worry about those two factors long before QOS becomes relevant to the equation.
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By now, most of us have probably seen the "Bush in 30 Seconds" ads on the web. They were part of an online contest, and the winner has been chosen. The sponsor of the contest planned to show the winning ad during the SuperBowl on Feb 1st. CBS is refusing to show ad, claiming it is too controversial. This "controversial" ad can be seen Here(HighBW)

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