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| Subject: | Re: Blocking Skype |
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| Date: | Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:20:12 +0100 |
Good morning! Morten Torstensen <morten@mortent.org> wrote:
dsluser@emirates.net.ae wrote:Blocking Skype Using Squid and OpenBSDNice writeup. But why? Why block Skype? It it really worse than MSN or GoogleTalk?
For one you can't be sure what the program actually does - or did I miss someone doing a reverse engineering, esp. of the protocol and the "P2P" part? I think mainly it is because of bandwidth. For home DSL users with 1-20Mbit/s shared between 1-3 people the P2P or voice traffic does not hurt. But 1000 people sharing a 2Mbit/s pipe (not great, but okay) such a bandwidth does hurt. As does all media streaming (e.g. internet radio). In contrast Text-IM uses a number of magnitudes less bandwidth. Bye Volker -- Volker Tanger http://www.wyae.de/volker.tanger/ -------------------------------------------------- vtlists@wyae.de PGP Fingerprint 378A 7DA7 4F20 C2F3 5BCC 8340 7424 6122 BB83 B8CB
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