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Anyone know how to disable skype supernode?

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:22 pm
by dgood
A problem at work is we have a very small wireless connection to the main part of our campus. Skype however is a very useful program for face to face speaking for regional offices if they want to have say a weekly meeting and don't' want an expensive conference call or video-conference. Skype however will become a supernode at times routing other traffic through it and will send enough small packets through that it will use up a large majority of our 1.5mb upload and will cause our requests to not go through and people lose their internet for small amounts of time. Anyone know how to disable supernode mode so they can leave it open and we don't have to worry about it happening? 3 people with that going on could completely use up all our traffice. it was using 1/3 of our traffic with one computer.

Re: Anyone know how to disable skype supernode?

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:17 pm
by dgood
After searching around all day on and off, I found that skype itself posts a how to on it in a pdf document and a few websites do also. it's in the registry so obviously most people wouldn't do it. However people on this site aren't what I would call "most people" so there are a few sites that walkthrough it. https://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/ ... figuration is one that I found mentions what things to change and also links to the pdf for network admins. Sorry for a double post, but though the solution should be separate from the question, time to put it in action and see later today or on Tuesday.
EDIT: Well it seems V3.8 doesn't have the same registry entries so now I have to find the new ones to disable it.