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Skype service hit by technical difficulties
There are several reports this morning of a widespread outage of the Skype service. Starting around 6 AM PST, the Skype service was struck by as of yet undefined problems on their network, resulting in many people unable to login and ultimately use the service.
The Skype team has made a few statements on the subject, and while they aren't detailing the scope or cause of the issue they are claiming they will have it resolved within the next 24 hours. Skype has stopped downloads of their client software in the meantime, and has suggested to their customers that they simply wait with their client running until it comes back up.
Were Skype just a few months out of the chute, this wouldn't be all that interesting. However, given that they have a fairly ample userbase and that many people have come to rely on VoIP, outages present more of a problem than they did a few years ago. Hopefully, the company will learn from the experience to craft a more robust service.
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User Comments (5)
Post a comment| kitty500cat on August 16, 2007 6:03 PM | From skype.com:
So the problem is a deficiency in the algorithm, vague as that may be. As of several minutes ago, the client still can't connect.
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| SCHUMIINSA on August 17, 2007 5:49 AM | I was also unable to log in yesterday. But I got back from college about an hour ago and I just saw that my icon is green again, so it's working again.
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| kitty500cat on August 17, 2007 7:00 AM | Still down for me, at 8:00 AM EST on Friday.
Now on skype.com:
Edit: around 8:06 I noticed that it had finally connected. But it disconnected again, so it's not totally finished yet. [Edited by kitty500cat on 2007-08-17 07:07:17]
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| phantasm66 on August 17, 2007 12:19 PM | Problems using Skype all day for me today in the UK.
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| Julio on August 17, 2007 2:53 PM | I was having trouble the past few days as well... pretty interesting how many people has been relaying on Skype service, more than likely replacing conventional telephone use.
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