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valisystem
on Aug 30, 2011
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Practical Nerd: The hidden price of “free”
But its business relies on selling your bandwidth.
brettnak
on Aug 30, 2011
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What do you mean? Selling bandwidth how? I really am curious here.
Maakuth
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All the calls are P2P, and if the peers cannot connect directly, the calls are routed through someone else's computer that's called a supernode. Pretty much none of the actual VoIP traffic touches Skype's servers.
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