I live & work in Malaysia, my family is in Sydney, Australia. I use Skype frequently to speak to them and others around ANZ & SE Asia. I have Linksys router/NATs at each location (3) as do many of my friends. This is what works for us.
Fire up video using MSN or Yahoo - when running via NAT you have to do this TWICE, once from each side with each side also accepting the session.
Fire up Skype and call the person you're looking at and "Chat"ting to. Works a treat, no perceptible lag.
Cameras - 1 Creative Notebook Cam, bluetooth mic/speaker (SonyEricsson)
1 Creative webcam, separate mic, leftover from a laptop of years past.
1 Logitech N4000 or somesuch camera & mic
The native Audio won't work thru the NAT without opening so many ports up that it defeats the purposes of having a NAT.
I have experienced a lot of lag when using SkypeOut.
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I live & work in Malaysia, my family is in Sydney, Australia. I use Skype frequently to speak to them and others around ANZ & SE Asia. I have Linksys router/NATs at each location (3) as do many of my friends. This is what works for us. Fire up video using MSN or Yahoo - when running via NAT you have to do this TWICE, once from each side with each side also accepting the session. Fire up Skype and call the person you're looking at and "Chat"ting to. Works a treat, no perceptible lag. Cameras - 1 Creative Notebook Cam, bluetooth mic/speaker (SonyEricsson) 1 Creative webcam, separate mic, leftover from a laptop of years past. 1 Logitech N4000 or somesuch camera & mic The native Audio won't work thru the NAT without opening so many ports up that it defeats the purposes of having a NAT. I have experienced a lot of lag when using SkypeOut.