Audio dropping in and out?

I'm in a Skype group of about 25 people, with calls that usually have between 5-7 people.  It is a Cloud-based chat.  The audio skips every five seconds and it doesn't matter who is hosting.  We've had two hosts based in the US (Seattle and Little Rock), one in Thailand, and one in Norway--all with good Internet connections.  It doesn't matter who is hosting the group, the audio is still ridiculously low quality and drops every five seconds.  It started doing this Friday night, and it was never an issue before.  It does it regardless of whether audio or video is involved, and regardless of whether it's the latest version or an older  version.
EDIT:  I should also add that people in the chat can always hear the host clearly, it's everyone else that can't hear each other, and the host cannot hear anyone else.

an update, switched the G4 laptop out with a G5 tower, keeping the rest of the setup the same, and the music played fine. Switched back to my laptop and the music played choppy. Noticed the CPU was bouncing around quite a bit on the laptop while playing music and that is when the music would cut out. So must be my laptop? Weird as the laptop worked fine for years and that is when it only had 512MB RAM. I did just update the laptop to 10.5 from 10.4 so perhaps 10.5 is the problem?
However I am running Twonhy Media Server on the laptop to stream video from the same server the music is on. I stream it to a PS3 and it streams perfect.
I would seem that iTunes does not efficiently stream music via mounted servers?
Message was edited by: David K Oberlin Jr.

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