ICQ Phone..Anybody else using it?

[rah]

I went to the icq web site and did a little searching. Apparently this problem is pretty wide spread based on the amount of posts that I saw that said, "I could hear them, but they couldn't hear me" Unfortunately there were no responses posted to those complaints. There boards are a little jumbled though. (unlike here) So I would suggest searching them further and maybe you'll get lucky. Or post a specific title in the section for their experts. (would have done that but I'm at work and don't know my icq number)

Rich

[Ming]

Thanks for the info...
My wife switched me over from DSL to a cable modem yesterday (you were right, the speed difference is obvious)
While she was at it... she tried to solve the problem. She checked all my settings, connections... you name it, and she looked at it.
Her conclusion... check with the ICQ experts

[War4ever]

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Thanks for the info...
My wife switched me over from DSL to a cable modem yesterday (you were right, the speed difference is obvious)

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you like cable better ? i heard dsl is better.... i am on cable but have tried dsl and found it quite quick....... let me know as i am moving in a month and need to decide which is better for me of course

[Ming]

DSL vs Cable modem... It depends.
We got DSL because that was the only real choice we had back when we moved in. Unfortunately, we were on the outer limits of DSL service (the closer you are to the central office switch, the higher the speeds)
My wife had to argue with them to even install it. At the time, the best speed they would promise was 144... and that's pretty much what we got.
It was sure better than tradional modem dial up service, but not as fast as we would have liked.
With the cable modem, I'm clocking in at speeds 4x's faster on the slow end, and have already seen it much faster than that.
So it really depends. From what I hear, the speed slows down on a cable modem if everybody in your neighborhood is on at the same time... but I really don't know yet. Rah has always seemed pleased with his cable modem service.

And on a side note, ATT Broadband just announced another rate increase yesterday

[Ming]

Rah... as you know, I went to the icq site last night and did find a FAQ on that exact subject when one of the ICQ reps provided me with the location after talking to him on chat... and as you also know, after trying all of their suggestions, it still didn't work. I then went back to chat, and said none of the suggestions work... he didn't bother to respond

After you left, I checked around some more and ended up posting my problem on the tech advice boards... I got MANY, MANY, MANY, responses... but most were along the line of "it's your headphones/speakers"... after explaining that I could hear the normal ICQ sounds, but not ICQ phone, most just said they didn't know what else to do.
My favorite suggestion was from somebody that said ICQ sucked, and I should use the MS version of instant messenger and their phone feature...

I'll continue checking out the ICQ site since it seems like the answer may be buried somewhere in that very disorganized site.
But, I'm still interested if anybody here has any suggestions

[War4ever]

perhaps you should go over to the site and become a moderator... then you could organize the threads so this problem could be corrected..... while your at it out workplace could use an organizer to

[War4ever]

mIngs icq is really messed up now...... its not just the phone i keep missing Barano's icq phone calls to......

Rich is yours still working ?

[Moker Guy]

alright heres the lowdown on what ive been able to come up with.
first of all whatever you do dont call a tech person for it thank me now or later i saved you about 3 hrs of worthless bullcrap. second of all when my friend sent me a voice mail with the icq it came out at about 1/3 speed. it is possible that this is coming out even slower over the pc to pc phone call, which would be why it cant be heard beacause the wave length is to distorted. it is obvioulsy a bug in the icq program beacause his microphone worked perfect when he recorded on his cpu. after many long hours we narrowed it down to the microphone device selector on icq. if in all possiblity it could be an incompatible device driver for the microphone, incompatible in that icq can not read the format, or an incompatible format that icq uses for compression. compressing the sound down when its already compressed and opening it up half way wouldnt work. that would explain the slowness of the icq voice mail. to bad we cant all just talk in .wav if i knew how to program i would try and make a patch for it but i dont have the first clue about how to go about that.

heres an idea though. send your friend the root version of icq2000b that you are using. if yours is working it might work for them too. maybe there is just a corrupt copy of icq circleing around. if that doesnt work i like the idea of scraping icq and using microsofts messenger even though i hate microsoft but after all icq2kb is a beta copy:rollryes:


Mokers 2cent

[Moker Guy]

oh a comment on dsl

i just got mine about a month ago and ever since a few days ago ive had nothing but problems. the server around here sucks. they even worked on it last night and it still dropped me twice today.

Moker

(i cant beleive im not prince yet)

[rah]

MK, your explanation would make sense except for the fact that I can Hear Ming when I connect to him but he can't hear me. Other people have successfully heard me. So it must be how he is receiving. But please continue to look into it. Maybe I could send Ming the copy I have.

War4, No I haven't tried it since I tested it with ming last Thursday. We had no problem connecting. I'll have to test it with you or Barono to verify.

Rich

[markusf]

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you like cable better ? i heard dsl is better.... i am on cable but have tried dsl and found it quite quick....... let me know as i am moving in a month and need to decide which is better for me of course
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ADSL is more stable, and it gives you a deadicated connection to your isp. On rogers/shaw your sharing a node and the customer service sucks, and the service is down a lot. At least in vancouver here.

[markusf]

ADSL is not DSL,niether is it VSL(25 megs/sec)....

[Ming]

I still get a few messages from posts I made in their forums. Most have to do with microphone settings (which I have checked multiple times). Nobody seems to get that people can hear me fine, I just can't hear them, yet my headset works perfectly for hearing the other ICQ noises... And, people who have been able to talk to others (proving the problem isn't on their end) are still having problems with me... sigh...
I've even reloaded the ICQ software a couple of times now to make sure I didn't get a corrupted copy.

I'm not looking forward to calling their tech support, but that's next on the list. I hope it's not a three hour trek to just learn that I should check my microphone settings... ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[War4ever]

Well i had a short chat with Barano last night..... was alot of fun Let me in on some secrets about the twinz and the way they like to play

[rah]

Yes, I was ammused when I was looking. There were two seperate issues asked.
1. can hear them, they can't hear me.

2. can't hear them, they can hear me.

Which you would think are two different problems, but when you read the soloution, they're identical. I just had to laugh.

Rich