Skype 7.2 and Staying Connected

For the last week, the connection between myself -- Charter Cable wifi in Wisconsin -- and a friend -- Time Warner cable/wireless in Ohio -- has been consistently dropping calls, citing a poor connection. First the picture or sound will go out, then the red bars of doom will appear, and then the call drops. It takes two to three tries from both of us to reestablish a connection.
Neither of us experience issues on any other programs, there are no firewall settings blocking Skype -- we both specifically set our to let Skype through, in fact -- and there have been no internet outages in the area. This is very frustrating. Instead of cheerfully presenting my computer with an update to "improve your Skype experience" a few minutes ago, some stability on the version already out there would have been appreciated. We both have version 7.2.0.103 currently installed.
I don't know what would be a helpful screen shot, but I can try to get any requests. Incidentally, we just managed to reconnect. The interval between the time he clicked to answer and the time it stopped ringing on my end was about 5 seconds. Some lag is understandable, but still.
Thank you in advance.

BTW - it seems like, if a user waits enough (like 30min.) he will be able to use Skype and other programs again. But I don't know what this kind of behaviour means? I was able to start task manager one time and the processor is quite idle when everything seems stalled..

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