Get Skype off your Corporate Network

Skype is a P2P app, all clients relay traffic instead of going through central servers. Even if you aren't making a call on Skype, you are still relaying traffic for all other Skype users.

If you watch your network bandwidth, a relay can use 80-128K, double that for actually making a call plus relaying.

Its in the fine print of the agreement for the software. Like anyone actually reads it though.

If you had 10 clients on your network, figure the bandwidth being sucked out of your T1!

I'm going to do a sweep of my network to see if its on any workstations without IT knowing about it.

Here is the article from Network World.

http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/092605tolly.html