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I''ve been reading, hearing, and looking at blogs that state Ruby on Rails is rather slow. Coming from a VB 6 world (thank you Microsoft for killing VB because VB.NET is NOT VB) I was always told that VB was a toy or too slow. Now, I''ll easily tell you that yes VB was not a great language. It had it''s share of warts, like a lot of other languages I might add, but

...that I can phone now. BUT: Theother party reaches me quite clear, after a few seconds of horrible white noise, with frequencies above 8kHz. Yet I come through all hacked or very slow. The slowness also happens to my voicemail. So if someone gets the voicemail, the sound is slow. As if it was timestretched. I don't think it's even changed in pitch. I looked at the voicemail sound files again and the quality (8kHz, mono, 16bit) looks good. Can it be a gtalk problem? Does gtalk not use 8kHz? Which codec does gtalk use? May it be, that it's one of the external codecs and they are so...