Re: How Skype uses the network [was: News item: Blackberry services down worldwide]

2011-10-15 Thread Alex Brooks
Howdy, On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: On Oct 13, 2011, at 7:26 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: On 10/13/11 3:30 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: In fact, Skype, just as a for instance, is worse on hotel wifi as launching the app on a laptop makes you

How Skype uses the network [was: News item: Blackberry services down worldwide]

2011-10-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 13, 2011, at 7:26 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: On 10/13/11 3:30 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: In fact, Skype, just as a for instance, is worse on hotel wifi as launching the app on a laptop makes you a middle node for some conversations. Per the Skype IT administrator guide, a Skype

Re: How Skype uses the network [was: News item: Blackberry services down worldwide]

2011-10-14 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: On Oct 13, 2011, at 7:26 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: On 10/13/11 3:30 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: In fact, Skype, just as a for instance, is worse on hotel wifi as launching the app on a laptop makes you a middle

Re: How Skype uses the network [was: News item: Blackberry services down worldwide]

2011-10-14 Thread Matthew Kaufman
On 10/14/11 12:11 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Those do not look like Skype servers. I guess it is possible everyone in my contact list is somehow pinging me, but that seems a little bit silly. How do you think peer-to-peer presence (online/away/do-not-disturb/offline) systems work?