Comment by djhn
10 years ago
I use Skype all the time. Occasionally it would work badly, which would cause to try something else (Hangouts, the apple facechat thing, facebook, some generic flavour of WebRTC). That something else would work much worse than skype under those network conditions.
I haven't experienced anything better, even if Skype obviously could be even better. With 300 mbit connections you would think we'd have somethin better.
Sococo had a product that worked much better than Skype! It was favored by enterprise organizations, so not a lot of coverage here.
I agree that Skype works pretty well, but it would be interesting to try and reproduce the network conditions you're describing.
I'm working with a "generic flavour of WebRTC" and they're still behind Skype and Hangouts, but they're getting better by leaps and bounds.