I'm hoping to get a few users to download this file and report the MD5 they get on it: http://download.skype.com/msi/SkypeSetup_7.0.0.102.msi
You can use something like winmd5sum to calculate the MD5: https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/winmd5sum_portable
Please report back with the MD5, your geographic location and ISP. I'm trying to determine why some people are seeing a different file and having the online installer fail for the new Skype 7.0 release. Thanks!
For completeness, the MD5 should be 54a4c7be7dcbeeae9f345c1efedbb42c
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MD5: 54a4c7be7dcbeeae9f345c1efedbb42c
Location: NSW, Australia
ISP: Exetel (via Optus infrastructure)
MD5: 54a4c7be7dcbeeae9f345c1efedbb42c
Location: Horsham, West Sussex, UK
ISP: Plusnet
Location: Southwark, London, UK, Roger is just over there in global geographic terms, fx: points generally SSW
ISP: Demon (different wires to Roger but almost certainly using the same pipes outside our ISPs and nationally)
You probably don't need another UK report, but ...
is it possible local firewall settings / parental controls / company controls / library / publicly accessible and similar could affect this not only national controls ?
Looking at the state thing I'm thinking about a conversation with a Turkish friend when state controls were placed on social media, it took mere hours before social media allowed people using social media to know how to use social media
Wm
MD5: 54a4c7be7dcbeeae9f345c1efedbb42c
Location Switzerland
ISP: large company network via swisscom
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
54a4c7be7dcbeeae9f345c1efedbb42c
Northeast US
TWC (Time Warner Cable)
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” Dr. Seuss
MD5: 54a4c7be7dcbeeae9f345c1efedbb42c
Location: Manitoba, Canada
ISP: Rogers Wireless LTE network, also a second time via MTS DSL
MD5: 54a4c7be7dcbeeae9f345c1efedbb42c
Location: Ohio, United States
ISP: Virgin Mobile Broadband-2-Go (Sprint network)
Installed SkypePortable_7.0.0.102_online.paf.exe yesterday no problems.
MD5: 54a4c7be7dcbeeae9f345c1efedbb42c
Location: Ohio, USA
ISP: unknown, but behind enterprise firewall and proxy
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I think it's time Skype Portable got its own forum, as I don't think people notice enough this and other topics related to Skype Portable.
Anyway:
Israel, bezeqint.net, 900deb36a9348d26642533bd48de30db
But you should know I've Googled the MSI file and some of the mirrors contained this MD5 as well.
So in the future, please mention your wanted MSI's MD5 in the download page, and we'll just Google up mirrors until we'll find it.
There's really no need for Skype to have its own forum as it has so few posts compared to the apps that need their own forum (LibreOffice, Firefox, etc). We have over 300 apps, we're not going to have forums for them all. Just the ones we have and then Internet, Office, etc forums for support for the others.
Yours is the very first that I've seen an actual end user getting this file. This leads me to believe it is country specific as the only other users who'd reported it to me appear to be in China. So, it's likely only in countries where Microsoft provides a special version of Skype with government access built in (they do this for several countries).
There may be no way around this and we may not be allowed to host and distribute to those countries by the EULA, so we may just not support Skype Portable in those countries.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
If you're correct about this, it's even news worthy.
But as mentioned, at least mention your wanted MSI's MD5 in the download page, and leave it to the users to decide if they wish to search for a MSI with this MD5 on their own.
MD5: 54a4c7be7dcbeeae9f345c1efedbb42c
Location: FL, South East USA
ISP: Comcast
File: SkypeSetup_7.0.0.102.msi
Download link: h**p://download.skype.com/msi/SkypeSetup_7.0.0.102.msi
MD5: 54a4c7be7dcbeeae9f345c1efedbb42c
Location: Romania
ISP: Telekom
P.S. SkypePortable_7.0.0.102_online.paf installed successfully. Skype.exe (main file) MD5: f5a0554f655c566eb946841e6e7ae061
I am a 3D body trapping a single dimension soul !
From multiple testing of download here are my result:
Using InternetExplorer 11: 54a4c7be7dcbeeae9f345c1efedbb42c
Which correspond to most of the result people update here. Using Firefox with custom profile and safe mode profile, multiples download is always
MD5: 900deb36a9348d26642533bd48de30db
Which is the same as user: lwc
I tried to spoof the useragent string in Firefox as a internet explorer but MD5 is still 900deb36a9348d26642533bd48de30db so it not that.
Using PortableApps updater, my Skype file found in %temp% is also:
MD5: 900deb36a9348d26642533bd48de30db
Comment 1: Earlier I posted a MD5 hash of a corrupt Skype download. To verify non-corrupt download, check if file digital signature in file properties is OK.
Comment 2: Something is crappy about MS servers in the last 2-3 weeks: many time they just don't deliver stuff - either requested files of forum postings (like in codeplex).
Following portport comment above, I tried to download using IE11, Chrome and PaleMoon directly from the link he provided. None could go beyond the 3-4 MB of data before hanging - just as the PortableApp installer did. So I used wget (all on the same computer). This did the trick and after verifying digital signature here is the data:
File: SkypeSetup_7.0.0.102.msi
MD5: 900deb36a9348d26642533bd48de30db
Location: Israel
ISP: bezeqint.net
Since I can't download the skype installation file upon activation of SkypePortable_7.0.0.102_online.paf.exe, I wonder if there is a way, short of rebuilding the whole paf file, to let the PA installer use the msi file in its directory instead of trying to go to an external site.
It can use an MSI in its directory, but the filename and MD5 must match what it is expecting. Not the modified version you're receiving.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I have access to some other servers at different locations, so the IP Skype sees is from the respective server location. Here are the results:
UK: 54a4c7be7dcbeeae9f345c1efedbb42c
USA: 54a4c7be7dcbeeae9f345c1efedbb42c
France: 54a4c7be7dcbeeae9f345c1efedbb42c
Tomorrow I will get data from 2 other ISPs in Israel, to see if it's ISP related or geo-targeting by Skype.
From another Israeli ISP:
File: SkypeSetup_7.0.0.102.msi
MD5: 900DEB36A9348D26642533BD48DE30DB
Location: Israel
ISP: 013netvision.co.il
I couldn't get access to a 3rd Israeli ISP yet, but since all the downloaded files - Israeli as well as US/Europeans I have reported so far are code-signed by Skype, it means that Skype geo-targets downloaders with different Skype versions.
I suspects that this may be due to coding differences to accomodate RTL UI (not necessarily language-specific, since the French and the British get the same file). If people from other RTL countries (Arabic/Persian) will test this hypothesis,this will be great.
P.S. thanks for the comment re the installer also checks hash values - I installed the file downloaded from France just fine.
Now from the same ISP in Israel, bezeqint.net, but from a different location and using Cable Internet as opposed to ADSL:
MD5: 54A4C7BE7DCBEEAE9F345C1EFEDBB42C
Go figure...