Odie97
join:2006-04-19
Oak Creek, WI
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Lovin It !
Been using it for awhile now and loving it. I do quite a bit of international calling and this expense is now ZERO ... used to all go to at&t.
Has to be freaking out the phone companies ... loving that too  |
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Happyrat
Google Is Your Best Friend
Premium
join:2002-07-01
Disneyland
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Re: How many actually connect?
Well they base their numbers on the number of installed/registered users. Frankly once I tried Skype I could never see a reason to not use it. It saves me a small fortune in long distance every month. It has no spyware, adware or nagware and it really doesn't use up a whole lot of resources. As for the P2P aspect of Skype, it will only use your machine and connection as a supernode if you allow it to. While Skype is amazingly adept at getting around a firewall when it has to, it won't turn your machine into a supernode unless you open the ports it needs. Otherwise you can be the equivalent of a P2P leecher with Skype simply by blocking it with your firewall while it's running.
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rit56
join:2000-12-01
New York, NY | reply to toddbs98
I was thinking the same thing..... |
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toddbs98
join:2000-07-08
North Little Rock, AR
clubs: 
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They probably do like the firefox folks do and count every download as a new user, not taking into account all the people who re-download the application.
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Patriots always speak of dying for their country never killing for it. Bertrand Russell
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brooklynman4
join:2004-09-07
Brooklyn, NY | reply to ronpin
I think they count the subcribers who left em they count as one . |
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ronpin
Imagine Reality
join:2002-12-06
Nirvana | reply to Fishie
I got off that train -- when I realized it depends on my broadband link to act as a router/server. No thanks.
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"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country" - and stop the NeoCons |
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Fishie
join:2003-01-14
Riverside, CA | I wonder how many people out of their 100 million actually connect regularly? |
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