Marathon Skype voice call: 66 hours 40 minutes
Guest post by Monty, a Palmdale, California, ham radio operator and computer geek. Monty blogs on LiveJournal, tweets, and is on Skype.
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
4:08 AM. Chatting with Guthro. We've been connected for over 10 hrs 45 mins, wow!
8:02 PM. Attempting to have a single Skype call that lasts at least 24 hours, to see what Skype's display shows after 1 day call duration
8:04 PM. Guthro's PC crashed, so call duration only got to 22 hrs, 31 mins, trying again now though shooting for 24 hours.
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
6:05 pm: a pointless but interesting Skype call duration experiment
Beginning Monday evening, I got this crazy pointless idea where I wondered how Skype would display call duration time on a call if it exceeded 24 hours. I wondered if it would show time as days, hours, minutes, seconds, or if it'd show hours, minutes, seconds, as it does for calls greater than 1 hour.
So in an attempt to find out what would happen after the 24-hour mark of a Skype call, I called my friend Adam Guthro in Canada, and kept connected, even after he went to sleep and everything. My previous Skype record for a single call was actually a Skype out call to Bec that lasted 12 and a half hours.
That long standing record of mine was shattered yesterday when Adam Guthro and I reached the 22 hour, 31 minute, 20 second mark of our long call. The attempt to reach and pass 24 hours failed at that point, as Guthro's computer decided to reboot itself due to Guthro working it too hard.
So we tried again yesterday into today, and this time results were much better, and in fact the experiment is ongoing as I write this.
As the counter passed 24 hours, Skype did not switch to showing call durations as 1:00:00 as you may have expected, but rather it continues to show time in hours.
As of this entry, our call duration is 24:20:00.
Now I wonder how much longer we can keep the call live? I wonder if we can break a record for longest connected Skype call? Guthro wants to try and break the 100 hour mark. I'll be very amazed if we get anywhere close to that, but if we do, I'd have to guess we'll shatter any known records for longest Skype call ever. Wouldn't that be unique.
Hmm wonder if I should try for longest SkypeOut call duration next? Yes pointless experiments, but fun nonetheless.
2:56 AM. Going to bed, just finished chatting on radio with a good friend, then chatting with Patrick for a bit, that was fun
2:59 AM. Skype duration now 9 hours exactly on my Skype experiment.
10:59 AM. Installed Skype scripts, current duration of experiment with Guthro, about 17 hours now and counting!
12:01 PM. Just finished watching the news, another warm day, temperatures in the 80's to low 90's in much of Socal.
5:09 PM. Longest Skype call experiment continues at this hour, previous record broken, now at 23 hours, 10 minutes!
6:01 PM. We've passed 24 hours of Skype call duration with Guthro and I, and Skype shows call time in hours after 24 hours, interesting!
9:32 PM. Just had a good dinner with sausages, Skype experiment continues now past 27 and a half hours!
Thursday, 23 October 2008
3:22 AM. Guthro's up for another day, our long Skype call continues at over 33 hours now!
11:08 AM. 41 hours, 8 minutes now, Skype call duration, and on we go, trying to wake up.
about 18 hours ago. We've now passed the 50 hour mark in my Skype call with Guthro, and we're still going, wow how long will our PC's stay connected?
about 11 hours ago. Waking up on this Friday morning. Skype call at 58 hours 18 minutes, Jdawg left at 50.5 hrs
about 6 hours ago. watching the Lunar lander challenge live at http://spacevidcast.com/live, though not totally sure what it is.
about 3 hours ago. Skype call with Guthro and I now over 66 hours in duration.
about 2 hours ago. Skype call ended abruptly thanks to computer rebooting itself. gurr piss! about 66 hrs 40 min record to beat
Friday, October 24th, 2008. 1:18 pm
Skype experiment ends abruptly, 66 hours, 40 minutes the new record to beat
My crazy experiment with Skype to try and see how long I can maintain a single Skype call, has ended abruptly after 66 hours and 40 minutes.
It ended without warning, as my computer decided to reboot itself suddenly while I was browsing the web, disconnecting not only my 66 hour plus chat with Guthro, but my telephone call I was on hold with as well! I don't know why the computer randomly rebooted, but I'm assuming it does that when there is low memory, as I did have a couple web browsers open at the time.
If I try this experiment again, I'll have to try and be sure only Skype is the only active window most of the time.
Ironically, Guthro's call duration is still climbing, since Jdawg remained connected to him when I dropped, therefore his portion of the experiment continues, and he's up over 67 hours now of total call duration, and he's shooting for 100 hours. Can he make it, or will he suffer the same fate as me and get the dreaded random no warning reboot? I'll let you know.
UPDATE: The Skype experiment has in fact officially ended with all parties, as Guthro['s connection] died after 73 hours, 15 minutes. so that's the new record.
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12 Comments:
so that is how simple it is to make million of calling minutes served ? maybe somebody should try it with skype unlimited calling. all this is great fun apparently, but what would be really interesting is to test the official calling limits of skype unlimited calling to pstn numbers.
maybe they can set a world record and get listed in the guinness book of records. www.guinnessworldrecords.com
I think officiating endurance records for Skype could be fun. Same with most people in a chat or in a conference call.
and now the marathon world guiness book of record attempt for the longest blog in time and number of blogs about skype :)
I know I use skype at lot but heavens I couldn't talk for that long!
At work we use interoute's voip for business service and found it to be both quicker and very secure, I wonder how long we could manage on that system!!!!
I use skype at home for my voip requirements and I know many people who have signed up this year. The figures don't surprise me at all. At work we use interoute's voip for business service and found it to be both quicker and very secure. I wonder if I could be the record using that system
Me and my friend (14 years) We could'nt have a sleepover that night so I suggested we watch eachother sleep eventually it turned into sleepovers and parties and I belive our record is like 48 hours but trust us well catch up! (haha)
Hi everyone I'm omar from Paris, I thought that the record was only 20 hours...I see that it's a lot more... My personal record with Stephanie who is in London was 14:16:24...The Challenge is Open!!
well me and my guy have been on skype now for 51 hrs 6 seconds and still going and have not had to disconect or reconect we are seeing how long we can lol
I think I win (click my name for the screenshot).
me and my girl we are in a call for 21hrs 53min and still on
im in greece she is in russia she use a windows system and im on a beta linux release of skype everything is perfect till now:)
My husband and I are in a call for 86hrs 45 min!!
He is the US and I'm in Holland
:)
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