Re: A few questions about Live Messenger

Greetings,

Using a broadband connection with a properly configured NAT (meaning UPnP) or a direct
connection, Live Messenger's voice and video quality is top notch and up to any other product
I've ever used.

Of course, actually getting connected properly and so on can be challenging, whereas Skype
(and other products) don't have nearly as many issues.

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"Roln" <roln@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:CxGng.1043130$xm3.521348@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

First question:
Is the audio quality of LM superior or so-so??

Eight or more years ago, I used Firetalk and it was the best audio chat program ever.
Unfortunately, the company went belly-up...and was sold to PalTalk. Their audio was not
great...and sometimes sucked.
Yahoo chat audio works fine for a minute or two and then gets goofy! Sounds like Donald
Duck, etc. It got SO bad, I (and most of my buddys) deleted Yahoo from our computers!
The audio on a few other popular chat programs is not great also.....
Along came Skype and CQ Phone with excellent audio quality....as good or better than
Firetalk. I used Google Chat
for a short time and the audio was very good.

Second question:
Is the video quality smoothe or jerky with LM??

The video quality is almost horrible on about every chat program I've tried.....Yahoo being
one of the worst.
By horrible, I mean jerky and freezes frequently.
The video chat on Skype and CQ Phone is smoothe and not jerky and the audio is in sync with
lip movement.

I've deleted Windows Messenger and MSN messenger from my computers and am in the process of
trying to delete Netmeeting as soon as I learn how.

Third question:

I'll be installing Vista this coming week and I believe Live Messenger is included?? If
it is, is it the same version as the one I can download from the web?

TIA
Roln





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