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As I have mentioned before, I dropped my land line back in October and primarily use Skype for my meager telecommunication needs. I was a bit perplexed when my client was going offline and having difficulty connecting until I heard about the outage. The folks at Skype are attributing the problem to a “perfect storm” of factors that prevented the Skype P2P network from recovering from all the Windows reboots caused by Patch Tuesday. Given that I still had my cell phone and don’t really talk on the phone that much, it wasn’t that big of a deal and the Skype folks are giving seven additional days of service for all of their paid Sype Pro, Skype Unlimited, SkypeIn and/or Skype Voicemail customers. The most interesting part of this to me is how infrequent Skype outages have been. I was sure there was some other form of network problem. At least now I know to check the Skype Heartbeat site before I start rebooting machines and routers the next time there is a Skype problem. |
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