Skype sounds pretty bad

[mike_r44]

Skype to a reqular home phone on my X51V has always sounded pretty bad no matter who I call. My voice and the other persons voice drops out frequently and its usually so bad that I have to call back on my regular phone.
- on the x51v the processor speed is set to normal
- I use skypeout and call only regular phones
- I use reqular headphones and use the built in mic on the x51v
- I have a regular, fairly quick DSL connection and a wireless Dlink router.

Whenever I make the call my pda is connected through the wireless router in the house. Downloading files through wireless has always been much slower then over a wired connection. Could this be the problem? How fast of a link does skype need?

[welsh dragon]

I have the same but dont have a problem.
What i do is turn the volume down to one bar and turn it upside down and use it as a normal phone.
I moved from 1 megBroadband to 4 meg and it has made a differance but was still goodenough to ring family that live in spain even at 1 meg.

Note: turn on the key lock when using the PDA up to your ear.

[mike_r44]

The volume and mic are working fine. It sounds more like a "data not fast enough" type thing.

For me it depended on these combined otherwise it'll get ugly

Speed 520-624
RAM *(need to have some auto programs off)
The Headset: (Currently 665 Plantronics/ Sucks at my own router, great everywhere else )

If all of those are in working order I get good calls, sometimes even still after a lengthy call their voices sound like a Robot over the intercom periodically.

[dontbugme]

As Noiro mentioned, make sure the processor is running at a high speed.

I would also recommend turning off Power save mode in the wireless settings.

Additionally, you could also try installing the 2.2 Beta and see if that makes a difference.

[ericem]

I had that issue, i set to auto, still had the issue. THen set the quality to max for the mic and worked fine.

[mosaix]

I just installed Skype on x51v and was quite surprised how bad a voice quality is. This is not about microphone quality, I didn't even tested it yet. But the incomig voice from Skype test server is just terrible.
This is not a network troughput issue, it sits pretty close to the WiFi router. Voice quality on a laptop at the same location is perfect.

When I changed CPU speed from Auto to Max - it improved a little, which surprised me - wasn't speed supposed to increase automatically when some CPU demanding app is running?

But even with max CPU speed setting, incoming voice is still breaking and overall sound is pretty bad.

I am not that concerned about Skype itself, may be they just didn't optimize it for PDA yet. But I am worried - can it indicate that there is something wrong with my Axim hardware or configuration.

By the way, can anyone point to any thread on this forum discussing benchmarks and performance?

[ComPH]

Skype to a reqular home phone on my X51V has always sounded pretty bad no matter who I call. My voice and the other persons voice drops out frequently and its usually so bad that I have to call back on my regular phone.
- on the x51v the processor speed is set to normal
- I use skypeout and call only regular phones
- I use reqular headphones and use the built in mic on the x51v
- I have a regular, fairly quick DSL connection and a wireless Dlink router.

Whenever I make the call my pda is connected through the wireless router in the house. Downloading files through wireless has always been much slower then over a wired connection. Could this be the problem? How fast of a link does skype need?

Your problem can well be your WiFi access speed, interference or some such wireless related issue, or maybe you are multitasking with some CPU intensive task. Check if there are any other tasks running. The x51v has plenty umph for single tasking of Skype. If you try the Skype with a PC, do you have good audio quality? I find the WiFi connection is most important link when using any sort of isochronous stream such as Skype or streaming video.

never had any issue with skype at all. quality soudns very good.

[Ashton]

If the internet connection is too slow it wont work worth crap. Back when skypeout was free, I had it on my X50v (upgraded to X51v afterwards) and at home, I could use it fine (1.5mbps DSL) however, when I was out in the street and just hopped on random wifi, it rarely worked, dropping calls, sometimes not turning on the mic, etc, though when I got it on a good network, it worked fine. Sounds like a connection issue to me, though I've not used skype for quite some time, so...

[jovalleau]

Skype works great for me (usually only the slightest delay) excpet for when there is something chunking the bandwidth, such as P2P software. I can even set the Axim away from me and wear some cheap ear buds and get good, long, consistent calls.