I use skype basically everyday as I have many relatives living on at least three continents. The other reason is I live in a country where the cost of making an overseas call is quite high and the local telcos are doing their best to keep it that way.

On Thursday the 16th of August, I tried to place a call using Skype and guess what there was no connection. Well on that day I just did not make any voip call or any other kind of overseas call.

Lets see what Skypes offical reaction is:

On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update

You can read the rest on the official Skype Blog.

Will this happen again probably. But hey, all telephone companies have some down. In general though, I am usualy satisfied with the quality of service.