Anatomy of the Skype network

This is a follow-up to my earlier post on “Skype Network Problems“. I’ve just remembered an analysis of the Skype P2P Protocol from the Columbia University that might give some insight on what’s wrong. The subsequent quotes are taken from: “An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol“, Salman A.Baset, Henning Schulzrinne, 2004, Columbia [...]

Skype Network Problems

Since this morning, I’m experiencing some severe Skype network problems. The client disconnects regularly, needs about 5 minutes to reconnect and drops the connection quite soon again (about a minute later). Likewise, the number of client that are logged in has dropped to about 2.5 million. Which also means that the p2p network is just [...]