I cannot understand the people who grumble about SKYPE . I have been a skype user for months and have had not trouble connecting at all. I have had very good connections to all of Europe, Australia and Asia. Maybe the people who have problems should look at their worn systems and their broadband connetions. Thank you Skype for the wonderful FREE service.

Lionel S. Balasuriya, Newport Beach, CA. USA

I have a few computers in the same house, all of which has it's own Skype account on it, they usually log in automatically. However, more often than not, when all 3 are logged in, the other accounts seem "off line", I can barely call my other PC's, let alone people abroad.
(I have top spec BB as well, so it's not hte connection)

Skype is a good idea, but pants to use, except on the rare occasion it works.

Luke, London,

Arthur - Do you work for microsoft? Skype is far better than MSN Messenger due to the bandwidth available the more people are online the better it gets.
I bunked off MSN to speak to my parents in Spain ages ago, Skype video and calling is much better than a lot of similar packages out there.

N Morgan, York, UK

Hi Jonathan,

I read some comments and articles that without knowing anything about P2P, they doubt what Skype say.

I just lecture about introduction to P2P. It is rather easy to understand, difficult to write and long to repair.

Mario Ruiz, allendale, us

It is amazing to use skype to make a call with a traditional telephone.Much cheap,more convenient.

sarah, newcastle, durham

Why use Skype? Windows Live Messenger is much better. Both the sound and video are superior. Far more people use WLM so you get more contacts.

Arthur, Coventry,

Don't be a muppet Al.

Dean, Gibraltar,

Gosh, what the hell is going on with Skype? It's been on the fritz on the second day in a row. Do the brains from Estonia realise what's going on?

Egor, Moscow, Russia

Carry on the great work Skype! Never let the begrudgers get you down. You help the world to communicate - gratis.

Eamonn, Dublin, Ireland

Al, looks like it. My experience is that I haven't been out completely; from time to time I get a connection, and I'm actually on a skyeout call right now - on hold as I type. My credit's still there.

Jonathan, Woking,

Hey , I have just been connected,
7.57 pm but , I see no one can receive my messages , but at least it is a start back to normality, there are also nearly 4 million others on line too.
Fingers crossed Skype have sorted the problem. !

Maggie Millington, Brittany , France

Skype costs money ONLY when you call a non-Skype user to his/her normal phone. Skype to Skype costs nothing. Despite the slight irritant of a small time delay, which makes conversation slightly awkward until one gets used to it (in about a minute!), Skype is a real bonus for talking with friends, etc., worldwide. My downtime last night (Irish Time) is nothing compared to the ongoing benefits.

Eamonn, Dublin, Ireland

Why wouldn't it? Anyway, you can log into your skype account on skype.com even though you can't log into your call/contacts skype. The website will show you the status of your credit

Paul, Tokyo,

Hi, On the skype problem, My skype has not worked for about two months and i have given up complaining to skype about it, they come back with different reasons all the time as to why they think its not working, but i still cant log on to make calls.

Regards

martin harley, welwyn garden city, Herts

My Skype credit came back in full when the network came up.

Mark, Roatan, Honduras

Skipe is giving unprecedented service around the Globe to millions of people in the 21 Century. One or two glitches should not get adverse comments by so called pundits and analysts.

Skipe..please continue your good job and you are a winner as always.

Cheers to all team members..!!

Kolluri, Hyderabad, India

Yes it will retain the credit that you had before it went offline. All of your account information, including the list of contacts, is retained.

Ian, Fredrerick , USA MD

Skype said 24 hours to get back its been 30hours. Its pathetic,, Werll it is iwned by ebay.. so that say everything about them

mark, somerset, uk

Poor Skype! It provides a wonderful service and it really tries to serve its customers. As a regular Skype user, I hope that it manages to resolve the problems and would like to express my continued support for this wonderful company.

John Pike mander, London, UK

There was an outage yesterday also, and when the service came back up all the user info was intact. I believe this problem just affects login.

Chris, Portland, OR

It’s only a couple of decades ago that BT was this bad.

Dave Hinton, London, England

when Skype does finally come back will it return with the credit that you had before it went off line? can anyone help with this one??

al, Kent, UK