Skype is eating up my bandwidth (and cpu cycles)!
February 16th, 2009 -- Posted in About Takis | No Comments »In the name of p2p, the creators of Skype are using YOUR bandwidth to connect other people!
So, I had set up a VPS on a 100Mbit line, and it was running Skype!
I was almost scared when I saw more than 2.000.000.000 bytes of data transfered in just a few days!
When I hit netstat, i waited more than 2 minutes for the connections to be listed!!!
A few minutes later I figured that Skype had opened ports 80, 443, 62xxx and many others accepting connections from users that are behind a firewall or NAT! It was using about 1-2 Mbits, not much, but many many pps ( packets per second ).
I must admit, that it was fun when, in the early days of p2p, I was searching for kazaa nodes through the web page, and then leeching all their content with just a simple http browser. But it is not fun when Skype steals the bandwidth you are paying for!!!
At least they should give us something, let’s say $0.01 for every hour they use our resources!!!
Or go buy some data centers to proxify your 15M users, you, Skype.