Re: Skype bandwidth consumption behind a firewall?
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Re: Skype bandwidth consumption behind a firewall?

From: Andy Furniss <firstname.lastname@dsl.pipex.com>
Date: Fri Jul 22 2005 - 03:28:20 CEST



totojepast wrote:


> When you connect a single PC running Skype to the Internet, it may


> become a Skype supernode, thus consuming a lot of bandwidth. When the


> PC is hidden behind a corporate firewall and NAT and the Skype client


> is able to utilize only an HTTP protocol, is the Skype client able to


> become a supernode? If not, does its bandwidth consumption decrease


> when it is idle?


> 



Google for cucs-039-04.pdf that may say somewhere.



Andy.


Received on Thu Sep 29 19:59:08 2005