I have been using Skype daily for many months with no major hitches. I spend about 20 Euros a day on Skypeout and rely on it heavily. This morning I just installed a new connection using an 8 mega baud / second connection with Orange's Livebox-DE50. As soon as this was installed Skype stopped working.

Some security settings must be blocking it. However:

- My Windows Firewall is turned permanently off
- Norton 360's firewall settings are set to 'Allow' for Skype

Why is my computer blocking it and what is the solution please?

It might not be your connection. There is a problem with the Skype network at the moment.

Oh, that's an interesting co-incidence. Thanks for advising me.

Actually, since my last post I was able to make a call lasting 15 seconds and then I got cut off.

Do you know when this problem started, please? And is there an anticipated timeframe for this issue to be expected to be resolved?

I noticed the problem at ~07:30 UTC. I've not seen an official timeframe for the fix. The forum and the Heartbeat page are the best places to get information.

same here!

//ratsafari

I use both Skype and Vonage for business calls. Today one of those services is working, and doesn't charge a connection fee per call.