Skype Bandwidth Cosumption?

[David Kuntadi]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Lindsay Mathieson
<lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:
> After a considerable amount of pain I have Skype Sound + Video working from
> the repos on Karmic Beta 1 :) Now can chat to my parents in New Zealand. The
> Logitech WebCam E3500 actually works pretty well.
>
> Once concern is that a remember a fair amount of fuss with regards to Skype
> peer-peer usage consuming your bandwidth even when offline, so long as the skype
> client is still running. With my cap at 7GB/Month this is a big issue.
>
> Is this still an issue if behind a Firewall? I have my router set to block all
> incoming connections and allow all outgoing.

As long as your skype is contactable, I guess it is still an issue.

DK