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 node will not become a
supernode unless it has a public IP address and meets the memory,
bandwidth, and uptime requirements. It will not become a relay node
unless it has a public IP address and is directly reachable from the
Internet.
It is very unlikely that launching the Skype app on a laptop on hotel
wi-fi would meet these requirements.
Does Skype on $HANDHELD have the same property?
Not as far as I know, for the obvious reason that handheld devices have
network connections that are suboptimal for this.
Matthew Kaufman
