Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>
> Strange Skype Network Activity - Even on Linux
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| I have a few contacts with whom I still chat on Skype, so I still start it
>| from time to time. Yesterday I started it in the morning, and then got
>| distracted and forgot to stop it when the person I was looking for was not
>| around (at least according to Skype's totally unreliable presence reporting).
>| When I went back upstairs in the evening, I noticed the that the 5GHz LED and
>| the Internet LED on my shiny new Netgear WNDR 3300 Wireless Router were
>| blinking like crazy, and I really mean like crazy. I knew that there
>| shouldn't be anything happening on my home network at that time, so I started
>| investigating.
> `----
>
> http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009019o-2000498448b,00.htm
>
Skype creates supernodes where it wants to. You, the customer, have no
choice in the matter.
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