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I bought a Linksys CIT300 phone that's supposed to work with Skype at my
cabin. I have Wild Blue satellite service. I can't get the phone to work
with Skype. I've read the manuals, and Skype sent me a list of things to
do, which I did.

First I got garbled sound, now nothing. I'm about ready to chuck this, but
I have heard of others having good luck with it. It is the last resort for
phone service at our cabin. Other than that, we have to drive three miles
to the mountaintop to use the cell.

Help would be appreciated.

Steve



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On Aug 7, 10:02 pm, "SteveB" wrote:
I bought a Linksys CIT300 phone that's supposed to work with Skype at my
cabin. I have Wild Blue satellite service. I can't get the phone to work
with Skype. I've read the manuals, and Skype sent me a list of things to
do, which I did.

First I got garbled sound, now nothing. I'm about ready to chuck this, but
I have heard of others having good luck with it. It is the last resort for
phone service at our cabin. Other than that, we have to drive three miles
to the mountaintop to use the cell.

Help would be appreciated.

Steve


Satellite service is generally not recommended for Skype, or any other
real-time network systems (like online games, webcam chat, etc). I've
got Wildblue also, and while the download speeds are acceptable when
compared to dialup, the ping response time (how long it takes for a
single packet to get to it's destination and then back again) is
abysmal.

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SteveB wrote:

I bought a Linksys CIT300 phone that's supposed to work with Skype at my
cabin. I have Wild Blue satellite service. I can't get the phone to work
with Skype. I've read the manuals, and Skype sent me a list of things to
do, which I did.

First I got garbled sound, now nothing. I'm about ready to chuck this, but
I have heard of others having good luck with it. It is the last resort for
phone service at our cabin. Other than that, we have to drive three miles
to the mountaintop to use the cell.

Help would be appreciated.

Steve


Satellite round trip delay tends to hose anything "real time" like
voice, video, VPN, etc. If you have a high speed connection at another
location with access to a land line, you *might* have better luck
operating your own VoIP bridge so you have control of both ends and can
set longer timeouts, etc. Not a particularly simple project.

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On Aug 8, 8:37 am, "Pete C." wrote:


Satellite round trip delay tends to hose anything "real time" like
voice, video, VPN, etc.


What about satellite phones - those bulky cell phone types with what
looks like a gun silencer for an antenna? Do they have the same
drawbacks?

KC

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KC wrote:
On Aug 8, 8:37 am, "Pete C." wrote:

Satellite round trip delay tends to hose anything "real time" like
voice, video, VPN, etc.


What about satellite phones - those bulky cell phone types with what
looks like a gun silencer for an antenna? Do they have the same
drawbacks?

KC

Not nearly as much, the satellites they use they use are in low earth
orbit.


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On Aug 8, 8:37 am, "Pete C." wrote:


Satellite round trip delay tends to hose anything "real time" like
voice, video, VPN, etc.


What about satellite phones - those bulky cell phone types with what
looks like a gun silencer for an antenna? Do they have the same
drawbacks?

KC


Yes and no. They have the same round trip delay to contend with, but
they are designed to deal with the delays so the audio data stream
doesn't break up. You still have a noticeable delay between the time you
finish saying something and the time the other person hears it, responds
and that audio gets to you. The problem with the skype stuff is that
it's not designed to handle the long delay so it has errors and the
audio breaks up.
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KC wrote:

On Aug 8, 8:37 am, "Pete C." wrote:


Satellite round trip delay tends to hose anything "real time" like
voice, video, VPN, etc.


What about satellite phones - those bulky cell phone types with what
looks like a gun silencer for an antenna? Do they have the same
drawbacks?

KC


Yes and no. They have the same round trip delay to contend with, but
they are designed to deal with the delays so the audio data stream
doesn't break up. You still have a noticeable delay between the time you
finish saying something and the time the other person hears it, responds
and that audio gets to you. The problem with the skype stuff is that
it's not designed to handle the long delay so it has errors and the
audio breaks up.

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KC wrote:

On Aug 8, 8:37 am, "Pete C." wrote:


Satellite round trip delay tends to hose anything "real time" like
voice, video, VPN, etc.


What about satellite phones - those bulky cell phone types with what
looks like a gun silencer for an antenna? Do they have the same
drawbacks?

KC


Yes and no. They have the same round trip delay to contend with, but
they are designed to deal with the delays so the audio data stream
doesn't break up. You still have a noticeable delay between the time you
finish saying something and the time the other person hears it, responds
and that audio gets to you. The problem with the skype stuff is that
it's not designed to handle the long delay so it has errors and the
audio breaks up.


How about the info this time...

I have a report from a reliable source that Vonage VoIP service does
work over Hughes satellite Internet service, but with significant delays
of 1-2 seconds. The person went back to land line for voice, so it's not
useable for routine communication, but potentially ok for remote cabin
use.
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SteveB wrote:
I bought a Linksys CIT300 phone that's supposed to work with Skype at my
cabin. I have Wild Blue satellite service. I can't get the phone to work
with Skype. I've read the manuals, and Skype sent me a list of things to
do, which I did.

First I got garbled sound, now nothing. I'm about ready to chuck this, but
I have heard of others having good luck with it. It is the last resort for
phone service at our cabin. Other than that, we have to drive three miles
to the mountaintop to use the cell.

Help would be appreciated.

Steve



There is way too much latency in your Wild Blue service to use VoIP.
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On Aug 7, 9:02 pm, "SteveB" wrote:
I bought a Linksys CIT300 phone that's supposed to work with Skype at my
cabin. I have Wild Blue satellite service. I can't get the phone to work
with Skype. I've read the manuals, and Skype sent me a list of things to
do, which I did.

First I got garbled sound, now nothing. I'm about ready to chuck this, but
I have heard of others having good luck with it. It is the last resort for
phone service at our cabin. Other than that, we have to drive three miles
to the mountaintop to use the cell.

Help would be appreciated.

Steve


You might look into something like this for your cellphone:
http://tinyurl.com/2yx3o8

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SteveB wrote:


I bought a Linksys CIT300 phone that's supposed to work with Skype at my


cabin. I have Wild Blue satellite service. I can't get the phone to
work
with Skype. I've read the manuals, and Skype sent me a list of things
to
do, which I did.


First I got garbled sound, now nothing. I'm about ready to chuck this,
but
I have heard of others having good luck with it. It is the last resort
for
phone service at our cabin. Other than that, we have to drive three
miles
to the mountaintop to use the cell.


Help would be appreciated.


Don't you also have to pay for bandwidth with your satellite service? If
so, I would not use Skype or any other VoIP service for that matter. Skype
is even worse than others because your bandwidth will also be used by
other people since it's a peer-to-peer service, meaning everyone shares.
It would be fine if you had a broadband connection with free bandwidth but
on a satellite Internet bandwidth charges could be steep.

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Don't you also have to pay for bandwidth with your satellite service? If
so, I would not use Skype or any other VoIP service for that matter. Skype
is even worse than others because your bandwidth will also be used by
other people since it's a peer-to-peer service, meaning everyone shares.
It would be fine if you had a broadband connection with free bandwidth but
on a satellite Internet bandwidth charges could be steep.


Charges to a non Skype user to call you, or you to call them are $.021 per
minute, which converts to two cents a minute. As per bandwidth, we are not
there long enough or often enough to approach the limitations. If one does
get close, they just slow you down until you catch up with the quota. This
is the last ditch resort to get some type of phone service at the cabin
without getting an incredibly expensive satellite phone.

Steve


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SteveB wrote:
"DA" wrote

Don't you also have to pay for bandwidth with your satellite service? If
so, I would not use Skype or any other VoIP service for that matter. Skype
is even worse than others because your bandwidth will also be used by
other people since it's a peer-to-peer service, meaning everyone shares.
It would be fine if you had a broadband connection with free bandwidth but
on a satellite Internet bandwidth charges could be steep.


Charges to a non Skype user to call you, or you to call them are $.021 per
minute, which converts to two cents a minute. As per bandwidth, we are not
there long enough or often enough to approach the limitations. If one does
get close, they just slow you down until you catch up with the quota. This
is the last ditch resort to get some type of phone service at the cabin
without getting an incredibly expensive satellite phone.

Steve


Is it in a totally remote area with absolutely no cell service in the
general area?
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Is it in a totally remote area with absolutely no cell service in the
general area?


In order to use a cell, I have to drive about three miles up the mountain to
a viewpoint. This is the common practice, but inconvenient at
times.......... snowy, rainy, middle of the night ...... Plus, if it were
an emergency situation, I might have trouble getting there to call in. A
couple of my neighbors have strong cell phones and service, and claim that
if they hang out their top window on a particular side, theirs works. Mine
won't where I am. I am considering building a lookout tower out of
telephone poles, but wouldn't know if it works from up there until after all
the hard work.

Steve


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SteveB wrote:

"George" wrote

Is it in a totally remote area with absolutely no cell service in the
general area?


In order to use a cell, I have to drive about three miles up the mountain to
a viewpoint. This is the common practice, but inconvenient at
times.......... snowy, rainy, middle of the night ...... Plus, if it were
an emergency situation, I might have trouble getting there to call in. A
couple of my neighbors have strong cell phones and service, and claim that
if they hang out their top window on a particular side, theirs works. Mine
won't where I am. I am considering building a lookout tower out of
telephone poles, but wouldn't know if it works from up there until after all
the hard work.

Steve


Rent scaffolding and assemble a temporary test tower first. Also check
my other post about functional VoIP over satellite.

Pete C.


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On Aug 9, 10:52 am, "SteveB" wrote:
I am considering building a lookout tower out of
telephone poles, but wouldn't know if it works from up there until after all
the hard work.


You might try an auxiliary antenna. I fastened my old Wilson truck
driver-type to a length of PVC, fastened that to the house, ran the
cable in through a crawlspace vent and into the dining room via a HVAC
duct and improved my reception to an acceptable level. But I had
*some* reception, however poor.

You can pick up the antenna at any major truck stop chain, they have
acceptable return policies.

Of course about a month later a new tower came online...

http://www.wilsonelectronics.com/Products.php?Type=D
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