Originally Posted by
Loren Pechtel
A possibly relevant data point: My wife just had a miserable connection on Skype talking to her sister in Shanghai.
Skype is being very moody: using it to make international telephone calls: no problems. Skype-calls to UK, few problems. Skype calls to US: major problems, essentially unworkable.
I have to say, my gmail is not mis-behaving (hope I don't jinx it) -- could it be that I'm connecting through a (chinese) university instead of a private network?
tb