skype

[sever nerd]

hi guys me and my mate talk over skype and i was wanting to no dos talking over the net use up your downloads

[rob916]

yes, not much.
check hourly usage bandwidth on the skype site somewhere.
Probably 10 meg or so an hour.

[intelliGEORGE]

hi guys me and my mate talk over skype and i was wanting to no dos talking over the net use up your downloads

Skype uses a peer-to-peer infrastructure, and routes calls via other people's computers in order to provide fast connections, and get around NAT/etc. Some people have found that having Skype in idle has chewed up to 2GB of their bandwidth allocation per month.

[rob916]

13 mb per hour on voip.
$14.95 a month for 300 untimed local 300 untimed national and 100 calls to mobiles.
Why use skype

[sever nerd]

thanks guys yeah i dont think its much its about i think its said 15m an hour

[Goose]

Yeah ABt 10mb/Hr when calling aprox 8kb/Sec but if ur going to leave Skype on idle Have a look at Peer guardian if you dont want to be a part of their routing network.