Hi Folks, Maybe some of you can elucidate a Skype puzzle.
I have Skype on Win XP (v. 4.0.0.216) and on Linux (v. 2.0). I usually use the Win XP version because it works better.
As of yesterday, I had the same Skype name and password on both.
I hadn't used Skype for a couple of months, but yesterday evening started it up in Win XP and entered the password. It hung for several minutes, then came up with a message that it had failed to connect. I repeated this several times (thinking maybe Skype was clogged, or something). Same result.
And the same result with the Linux version ("P2P connection failed"). Repeatedly.
So I wondered if their might be a password problem, therefore logged in to www.skype.com using it, and got in OK.
Nevertheless I decided to reset the password anyway. I was sent a password token to log in to the secure site for doing this, and set about re-entering the old password. Got a message "Password too easy to guess" (also required numbers + letters, which it hadn't done before). So I chose a different password.
After that, I had no problems using the Win XP Skype with the new password, but when I tried Linux Skype with the new password it still failed to connect. Re-tested again this morning: Win XP Skype works, Linux Skype does not.
One remaining issue might be that the Linux Skype version (2.0) may now be too old to be acceptable to Skype, though that would be surprising.
I'm aware that Skype can go real flaky at times (though not very often, in my experience), but the above strikes me as puzzling.
Any comments and suggestions welcome. With thanks, Ted.
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