On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:00:06 +0000, Phil Thompson
<phil.thompson@spamcop.net> wrote:
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>Went into the office and found the PC chomping away at something,
>Netmeter showed 6 kbytes/s traffic both up and down.
>
>IPtools showed 14 screens of TCP connections to skype.exe processes,
>at least 400 active connections to a huge range of external IPs.
>
>Router firewall reported 2000 active streams (its limit) rebooted it
>with a new limit of 2500 and they were quickly filled up too.
>
>Email and web browsing very unreliable, lots of timeouts.
>
>Looked like dear old 192.168.0.35 had become part of Skype's
>infrastructure again. Couldn't even make a Skype call as it couldn't
>find a proxy ! bit off when it overloads the system to the point where
>it can't work itself.
>
>Such is life, Skype get paid millions by Ebay and I get to provide an
>infinitesimal part of their infrastructure :-)
>
>Phil[/color]

The Skype Network Administrators guide claims that you shouldn't
notice any decrease in performance when being used as a supernode.
Clearly their claim just isn't true.

"In addition, given the strict bandwidth limit placed on supernodes
and relay hosts, Skype end users cannot tell the difference beween a
given computer being used as a regular Skype node, supernode, or relay
host because the capabilities required to support the additional
functionality are transparent and have no noticable impact on a given
computer's performance."

See [url]http://www.skype.com/security/guide-for-network-admins-30beta.pdf[/url]
for full details.