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Old Aug 20, 2007 | 10:44 am
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up what?
Originally Posted by UAVirgin
Keep in mind that Skype is like a p2p system. When your Skype client is on you are allowing other users to use your bandwidth. It could slow your other Internet activities down.

If you don't care about making calls to land lines/mobile phones then you could just as easily use Yahoo messenger for your calls.
uh, what?

so, when the skype client is running, are you saying that I am acting as a virual node, routing traffic across my pc? Why would that be, for local DID termination? I haven't seen it act that way, not sure what the point to point voip benefits would be?

Any links to this info?
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