Slashdot Mirror
Skype Slowly Restores Service To Users
CWmike writes "Skype continues to slowly recover after an outage caused by problems with its peer-to-peer interconnection system. The latest estimates say that 10 million users are now online, according to a blog post. Skype's outage began on Wednesday."
I've worked in the telecom industry and I've seen the type of testing they do on their products, and I've worked in the software industry and I've seen the type of testing they do on their products...
It will be a long long time before I give up my hardline from ATT and rely only on VOIP as my main contact with the world. or anything more than I'm bored - let's see who I can talk to....
A LONG time....
Real SUV's don't have cupholders
It's 5:42 A.M., do you know where your stack pointer is?
Operator: Can I help you?
Skype: YES, all of our peer-to-peer servers just went down. We have 23 million users offline right now.
Operator: Have you tried turning it off and then turning it on again?
Sabotage by Comcast and AT&T. It's clear that they're scared that net neutrality bill is a big threat to business in the land line department... so the new plan is to make skype totally unreliable by sabotage. Eventually all the skype users will realize that VOIP is a bunch of crap and they'll go back to using land lines. It's so obvious!!
/tinfoilhat
Global warming and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking number of pirates - Gospel of the FSM
That's why there's Twitter: "@911, need help, was watching football game, now choking on a pretzel, my address is 1600 penn" [140 char maximum reached]