Skype and Hotel Networks

Dan York blogs about issues in using Skype in hotel networks.  See:

Additional thoughts on Skype and hotel networks - there's issues on both sides... [Disruptive Telephony]

Last week while in Toronto for the Cisco UC analyst's conference, I found that my Verizon Blackberry 8830 "World Phone" didn't work in my hotel room, so I used Skype on my IBM T42 laptop without any headset to call home a few times via the in-room Internet connection.  The call quality was just fine.  But it will be interesting to see if the issues Dan raises are localized to a few hotels or chains, or become a wider issue.

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