"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in
news:3lbQj.30759$OV4.4651@fe127.usenetserver.com:

> I don't know- I don't use any VoIPs beside Skype that steal my idle
> bandwidth for torrent-like distribution of their users' files! I
> believe Gizmo does all that crap you mentioned if you use their
> software, but I only use them for cellphone Visual Voicemail and the
> occasional SIP call- I don't even have their software client installed
> on my machine. (I removed Skype from my PC when I saw how much
> bandwidth was flushing through my system whenever it was running as
> well. Now I only have it on a USB key and my WinMo phone and just
> fire it up when I want to place a call.)
>
>
>

I have Gizmo but find Skype much easier to use and Gizmo doesn't run, of
course, on any of the Skype wifi phones I have in the other rooms of the
house. I don't need 27 people calling me on 8 different systems. One will
do nicely...(c;

I've been a Skype supernode for about 8 hours, tonight. There's one local
Knology user 24.214.49.19 and some user-0c6tde1.cable.mindspring.com
connected through it as I type this. My other Skypes are all the wifi
phone types and not able to supernode, including the N800 Linux tablet, but
they are making the lights blink every few seconds along with the supernode
contacts. It's nothing. Grabit is quite happily downloading and cramming
my poor RAID stack at 650KB/second so they're not using any bandwidth.
What kind of bandwidth did you see from your supernode? Skype only routes
routing information through you as part of the system redundancy around the
various bastards trying to block Skype from their systems. No file data or
audio data at all goes through other users. When you're talking to texting
or file swapping, you're directly connected to your other party....no
relays are necessary.

I've seen 10 connections at once a couple of times, but it never makes a
dent in my bandwidth, here.

Some people get kinda paranoid when they look at a list of things connected
and see all the skype connections. It's really nothing....