Switched has a new home! Huffpost Tech.

Click here to visit the new home of Switched!

Hot on HuffPost Tech:

See More Stories
AOL Tech

Skype Voice Chat Service Goes Down for an Entire Day

by Tim Stevens on August 17, 2007 at 09:06 AM

Skype Outage
SkypeYesterday afternoon, reports began to surface regarding widespread log-in problems with Skype, the popular voice chat and digital phone service. By "widespread log-in problems," we mean "nobody in the world could log in." Throughout the evening, Skype engineers worked through the problems and made frequent posts on their status blog. The blogging engineers took every possible opportunity to point out that there was no hack or security threat going on. The problem was blamed on "a deficiency in an algorithm within Skype networking software," according to the blog. The deficiency has apparently been fixed.

But don't expect to be able to log in instantly today: It seems the company's servers are filtering through reams of backlogged data and are slowly catching up. If all goes well, you should be able to get back to your free online video and voice chatting by the end of the day. Until then, you might just have to pick up a regular phone to get in touch with people, assuming you still have a regular phone.

From 'The New York Times'

Related Links:

Tags: Hacks, Security, Skype, VOIP

Comments

1

Add your comments

Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.

When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password.

To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br /> tags.

HuffPost AOL Social News Most Popular