>>> 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? 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..
>
> Do you (or anyone else!) know if Skype would work via a VPN?  If I  
> set one up between my and my girlfriend's LANs it would solve all of  
> the above, and hopefully
> would obviate the dropout and echo problems I get.  But how do you  
> get it to go that way rather than out onto the "wild" internet?

Depending on the VPN it runs over the 'wild' internet. It isn't really  
practical to route the traffic either :S you would be better off  
looking at another kind of voip. A sip client or something. If you had  
a vpn you wouldn't get the usual SIP/NAT issues.
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