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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

There is a part of the Skype agreement which suggests that Skype can use your machine as a "Supernode" to use your machines resources and bandwidth for 3rd party traffic.

If you have a limited download capacity on a plan with your ISP, Skype may be using this capacity without your knowledge.

Check out the ANUs discussion on Skype

I won't be using it on my machine.

Diana

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mainly gnu hysteria .... ie if it aint a gnu project it aint nice..

as for the bandwidth bit, thats how ALL the internet does what it does.. a small client machine on a domestic link would be useless and time out as the packet latency would be horrendous so would be bypassed as a matter of course very very quickly...

skype is written by the mob that originally devised kazaa and it was riddled with spyware and they were done a couple of times if my memory serves me rightly..

Never used chat.

Cheers
Simon

have added an irc based chat as well on second navbar just to trial it...

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Originally Posted by incisor

mainly gnu hysteria .... ie if it aint a gnu project it aint nice..

as for the bandwidth bit, thats how ALL the internet does what it does.. a small client machine on a domestic link would be useless and time out as the packet latency would be horrendous so would be bypassed as a matter of course very very quickly...

skype is written by the mob that originally devised kazaa and it was riddled with spyware and they were done a couple of times if my memory serves me rightly..

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correct they were and the supernode option is for inital package routing and some other nifty stuff, its semi intelligent and if your too slow it wont happen BUT it will burn up your bandwidth trying to do its thing

I voted no but just because there is never anyone there, a downward spiral maybe?

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Originally Posted by HangOver

I voted no but just because there is never anyone there, a downward spiral maybe?

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i'm there chatting at the momet hangover, come over and join us for a chat..

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Originally Posted by Disco_owner

i'm there chatting at the momet hangover, come over and join us for a chat..

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Thanks but at the moment a movie, the misus and a vodka & coke is calling ;)

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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

correct they were and the supernode option is for inital package routing and some other nifty stuff, its semi intelligent and if your too slow it wont happen BUT it will burn up your bandwidth trying to do its thing

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very little actually compared to a few of it competitors. i have done quite a few sustained packet dumps / monitoring on this and a few other things and it adds very little to your overall usage in comprison to other like applications. when i owned my isp business this monitoring was all part of keeping the service manageable.

like any voice protocol, when you start voice chatting there goes a fair chunk of your bandwidth, it has quite good compression algorithms / codecs from what i have seen so isn't nearly as bad as some.

in text chat mode it uses about the same as an irc client..

the only real minus is the heritage from what i have seen, and the current owners (ebay) are just as notorious if not worse.

I don't, cause i can't type fast enough, and other users don't compensate for slow pokes like me.

Baz.

I have done in the past but there isnt many people in there very often so I gave up even looking.

I dont really think it would be missed if you let it go.