CIT200/300 mic too quiet

this happened yesterday. 
I currently have both CIT200 and CIT300, but i use the 200 model since its simpler. i use skypephone mostly every day with no problems up untill yesterday.
For some very strange reason, the other party cannot hear me loud, and from the audio devices options in skype i noticed that the mic bar is very low even if i have it in max. At first i thought that the mic on CIT200 was malfunctioning. But anyway, i installed CIT300 and guess what? i still have the same problem. Now, i dont think that this is a coincidence, both phones' mics are malfunctioning?? i dont think so. I even installed both CIT stations on different computers just to ensure this doesnt have to do with my PC, although i was 99% it wasnt since i know very well how to configure audio settings on my PC. I had these phones for over 2 years and were working perfectly fine, and i dont think that the mic are faulty becasue if that was the case the other party would not hear me at all.
What i think is that skype is sabotaging third-party products so their customers would eventually buy their own products.
Anyway since i cannot contact linksys for this matter because for some reason the dont give support on VoIP products anymore, im posting this here hopefully will solve this problem.
Since my phones are not faulty i believe all cit200/300 users will have the same problem.
im waiting for ur replies..
thanks

hey thanks for ur reply..i thought i made that clear about the other computer...i wouldnt go into that trouble of writing this if on the other computer were working fine.. that would mean thats something wrong on the other pc..anyway..the same problem exist on all computers..now if i was testing 1 phone i would probably assume that the phone is faulty but its 2 phones..and i dont think that both are faulty..before that day both of them were working fine..and the weird thing is that the mic is not broken.its just too low...i have to scream for the other party to hear me..and i found another thread in here by a user who was/is facing the same problem..the thread is a year old and no replied were posted on that thread so i dont know what happened..if they used fixed it or not..i left a msg hopefully the user will get it...
i would like to know other users of cit200/300 are having the same problem..if not please at least reply to me..so i discard the assumption of skype sabotagind third-party skype phones...
thanks again

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