Why is face time so much clearer Skype?

My wife is in that country in Europe. We've tried both Skype and Facetime. Facetime is perfectly clear, as if she's in the next room. Why? Don't they both use WiFi/Internet?

Skype uses background processing on computers running Skype..."Peer-to-Peer". To use Skype, Skype has to be running in the background...unlike FaceTime, which is true point-to-point.

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