On 5/11/11 2:26 AM, Mike Miller wrote: > http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/02/24/skype-steals-bandwidth-%E2%80%94-even-when-you-are-not-using-it/ > > > I once heard that it had something to do with routing calls, but I don't > know what they are doing. I keep it fully off unless I'm actually using > it or expecting a call. The blog had nothing to do with routing calls. It was a poorly written ("using up you bandwidth") hyperbolic ("As far as we are concerned in computers, sudden death") and factually misleading piece. They are talking about bitrates (kilo/mega/giga-bits/sec) and amount downloaded (kilo/mega/giga-BYTES/sec). Their conclusion: their ISP was capping them because of 3.9Gbytes/month. In reality, this is 500Mbytes/month. Not much traffic. You may be correct about skype stealing bandwidth, but that blog doesn't support it. John