Steven Howes wrote:

>> All joking aside, what specifically do you disagree with what they do?
>> I've heard complaints about how they use your network connection to
>> make money, anything else?
> 
> The fact that you end up relaying for other people if you are not behind
> NAT? 

IMO who doesn't know about NAT definitely should be behind a NAT router in
the first place, and for a business that's almost a must anyway.

> And if you are behind NAT the chances are your traffic is bouncing
> off other peoples connections where they could easily do a dump of it.. 

I'd say that any communication that goes over the Internet "bounces off"
other people's systems and is subject to interception. Is there any reason
to assume Skype is worse than a standard SIP provider in this respect?
Usually you don't control the route to your SIP provider, so those packets
may be "bouncing off" a number of machines, too.

WRT reliability, at least from this end of the world (Brazil), Skype is
more reliable than e.g. Broadvoice (one of the major US SIP providers).

Gerhard

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