Re: [] [news] Peer to peer telephony from the people you brought you Kazaa

[Ben Teitelbaum <>]

Steve Blair 
<>
 writes:

> Ben:
> 
>   I'd be interested in how much traffic this application can
> generate. Does anyone have numbers?
> 
> -Steve

I just did a test call with Jeremy and sniffed the traffic.  The media
stream averages 11kbps total, both directions.  Fidelity was good
considering Jeremy was on a WiFi connected laptop.  There were,
however, a number of drop-outs.  The GUI and directory integration
were slick, though the client hung in the middle of our call.  

Without a call in progress, I observed little traffic.  It seemed to
call home to beta1.skype.net and several other machines in Sweden and
Denmark, then initiate a bunch of pings to various, machines, and sit
there with a couple of TCP connections open.  Again, very little
traffic, but perhaps my machine hadn't yet been elected a "Supernode"!

-- ben

> 
> Ben Teitelbaum wrote:
> 
> >With P2P file sharing, we provided the IP connectivity and the
> >students and Napster provided the client and directory.  Seems like
> >Skype is hoping for a similar "revolution".  Any VoIP WGers have any
> >experience with this thing?
> >
> >-- ben
> >
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> >[For those who have not discovered it yet, I highly recommend Skype - peer 
> >to peer telephony over the Internet.  It is the latest technology 
> >development from the same people who developed Kazaa. It is free.  The 
> >audio quality is excellent and better than most regular phone or cell 
> >phone connections. And it works superbly  over WiFi 802.11 networks. It is 
> >the perfect thing to avoid expensive cell phone or long distance charges, 
> >especially at any WiFi hot spot.  The question is whether Skype will do to 
> >the telephone industry what Kazaa did to the music industry? -- BSA]
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> >http://www.skype.com/help_faq.html
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