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fring improves voice quality

With many people phoning their loved ones at this time of year, fring has got great news for fringsters in South Africa.

To improve voice quality, we have just installed the first local fring servers in South Africa. The locally hosted server farms will vastly improve voice quality and latency when making fring calls.

Hear the difference - fring a friend today!

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1. Hi Simon, who is hosting the local servers ?Any IP addresses to check the latency.
   Do they work the same way as SkyPE supernode servers where clients can connect to these servers and they route your calls to the next node until your reach your destination. Brief explanation
   Most SkyPE supernodes have international IP addresses, you can check with the netstat command, to see how many remote connections you have established. Thats why it is always adviceable to run a firewall to see how and what remote services your PC is accessing.

   Skype client is always connected to a SuperNode (any Skype client can become a SuperNode, the SuperNode is acting as a hub). SuperNodes are always on routable open IP addresses. When a call is set up the established TCP connection with the SuperNode is used to signal that a call is coming. Dependent on the firewall status of the client the data stream is set up either as UDP (if firewall allows) or in worse case as outgoing TCP which is almost always allowed. If both clients are only allowed to do outgoing TCP calls are routed through another peer.”

   In other words you get to know there is a call for you and you make the outgoing connection to a known supernode to meet the call

   Comment by Justin — December 26, 2007 #

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