Which is better Zoom or Skype

[Ricky C]

On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 9:28:42 PM UTC-4, Dan Purgert wrote:

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Ricky C wrote:
[...] Everyone talking at once is not Zoom's fault, but what's up with
the bad telephone hybrid like echos?

Laptops with integrated microphones. Mic picks up the other person
talking, and feeds it back into the meeting.

The person (or persons) responsible needs to turn down the sensitivity
on the mic, or their speaker volume. Or if there's a Push-to-talk
feature, use that.

Why would that cause an echo unless there was considerable latency in the connection? Maybe that was on my end. My connection is not so good these days with everyone at home. The provider is small and there's not much he can do about it being overloaded, it seems. In fact, there are times when even before the shut in that the service would just go down and he'd have a hard time getting it back up.

What's with the PGP signature thing? Does anyone use that?

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[Clifford Heath]

On 2/5/20 11:45 am, Ricky C wrote:

On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 9:28:42 PM UTC-4, Dan Purgert wrote:
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Ricky C wrote:
[...] Everyone talking at once is not Zoom's fault, but what's up with
the bad telephone hybrid like echos?

Laptops with integrated microphones. Mic picks up the other person
talking, and feeds it back into the meeting.

The person (or persons) responsible needs to turn down the sensitivity
on the mic, or their speaker volume. Or if there's a Push-to-talk
feature, use that.

Why would that cause an echo unless there was considerable latency in the connection?

Most of the conferencing systems have some sort of echo-cancelling. They
vary in how good they are. Few cope with long latencies, and none cope
well with varying latency.

CH

 

[Cursitor Doom]

On Fri, 01 May 2020 17:39:40 -0700, RosemontCrest wrote:

So, you would use Zoom simply because it is "the hottest thing out
there." Is that the only criterion you use when selecting products?

Yup, absolutely everything - with the sole exception of heatsinks.

 

[Klaus Kragelund]

We use team viewer at work

It is stable and performs well
Has documentation features also

Zoom is great also, but not secure

 

Cursitor Doom <cd@not4mail.com> wrote in news:r8js1g$uec$1@dont-
email.me:

On Fri, 01 May 2020 17:39:40 -0700, RosemontCrest wrote:

So, you would use Zoom simply because it is "the hottest thing out
there." Is that the only criterion you use when selecting products?

Yup, absolutely everything - with the sole exception of heatsinks.

Critter-eon... <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giDttMU-k00>

 

[Winfield Hill]

Klaus Kragelund wrote...

We use team viewer at work

It is stable and performs well
Has documentation features also

Zoom is great also, but not secure

Q & A from 2013:

Q. Can TeamViewer spy on you?

A. We use Teamviewer and also Webex. We install it as
on our client's computers. If you start it and give
mouse/keyboard control and walk away, then yes, they
can spy on your computer files. If you are present,
you can see everything they do.


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[Phil Hobbs]

On 2020-05-05 06:21, Winfield Hill wrote:

Klaus Kragelund wrote...

We use team viewer at work

It is stable and performs well
Has documentation features also

Zoom is great also, but not secure

Q & A from 2013:

Q. Can TeamViewer spy on you?

A. We use Teamviewer and also Webex. We install it as
on our client's computers. If you start it and give
mouse/keyboard control and walk away, then yes, they
can spy on your computer files. If you are present,
you can see everything they do.

I use Zoom in a disposable VM running under Qubes, which is a Xen
distribution running various flavours of Fedora, Debian, and Whonix.

The only files it can touch are the ones in the VM template, unless I
copy something to the VM in order to put it on screen share (which I
rarely do).

Qubes also allows very fine-grained control of cameras, mics, USB
devices, and so forth.

Good Medicine.

Cheers

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On Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 11:19:08 PM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
> Somebody here knows the differences.

ummm, better for what???
Depending on your particular situation, they both have abysmal security. Both are not allowed on military and certain other gov agencies.
Sharing documents - Zoom is easier to use and has some nicer features. The interface to skype if extremely non-intuitive.
Audio communication - both are OK, but I'd rather use a cell phone - both suffer from audio compaction/expansion - my experience is that skype is worse.
Video telecon - Zoom more user friendly, and does not seem to suffer the audio problem as much as skype.
CPU utilization - skype seems to be a resource hog more than zoom
Handling multiple participants in a video teleconference - I believe zoom is better than skype - IME, both have degraded noticably with additional users, but skype seem to drop off faster.
I've also noticed a difference in the 'free' version of zoom vs the paid version. The paid version seems generally more stable at handling more ppl.
I can't give any use statistics, because I havent conducted any real testing other than personal and business us experience.
J

 

[mpm]

A colleague that got let go (layoff) due to the coronavirus thing happens to live in an area where his cell phone service is awful.

I was going to give him a desktop Skype adapter that I've not used in many years, but when I just now tried to use it, I find that it won't connect to Skype (and apparently Skype "no longer supports the API for incoming calls..") Doesn't say anything about outbound calls. The model I have is the XBlue Networks SP2014. In fact I have two of them.

But my question:
Are there any Skype desktop phones out there similar to the SP2014?
Can the SP2014 still be used to make outbound calls? (Or is it now bricked courtesy of Skype and Microsoft?)

When I tried to use the SP2014 tonight, I'm not sure if I'm entering my Skype account correctly, and/or have all the network settings right (even though it's DHCP). Thus, I can't answer the question about outbound calls myself.

My friend can always use Skype via PC, headphones and mic.
But I thought I would give him these SP2014's if they will actually connect and work.

Anybody know?

Thanks.

 

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Wed, 6 May 2020 18:33:26 -0700 (PDT), mpm <mpmillard@aol.com>
wrote:

>Are there any Skype desktop phones out there similar to the SP2014?

<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/skypeforbusiness/what-is-phone-system-in-office-365/getting-phones-for-skype-for-business-online/getting-phones-for-skype-for-business-online>

Can the SP2014 still be used to make outbound calls? (Or is it now
bricked courtesy of Skype and Microsoft?)

Which SP2014?
Is it the X Blue Skype phone:
<https://xblue.com/support/pdf/Skype/Skype-Phone-User-Guide.pdf>
I tried a variety of dealers and every one shows "out of stock".
Or perhaps it's the Freetalk SP2014?
<https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/tag/freetalk-sp2014/>
or maybe this one?
<https://lawm.github.io/2018/06/16/skype-phone.html>

My guess(tm) is that MicroSloth pulled the plug on most Skype phones:
"Microsoft pulls the plug on Skype-certified phones" (2017)
<https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/microsoft-pulls-the-plug-on-skype-certified-phones/>

To insure maximum confusion, Skype seems to also support an assortment
of "IP Phones" (whatever that means):
<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/skypeforbusiness/certification/devices-ip-phones>

Anyway, it's a mess. I suspect that if it's not blessed by Microsoft,
it won't work with Skype.

Incidentally, if you must use Skype, there are various unauthorized
SIP to Skype gateways available, some of which might still be
functional:
<https://www.voip-info.org/skype-gateways/>

When I tried to use the SP2014 tonight, I'm not sure if I'm
entering my Skype account correctly, and/or have all the network
settings right (even though it's DHCP). Thus, I can't answer
the question about outbound calls myself.

Try calling "Skype Test Call" also known as "echo123".


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