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didnt skype used to be p2p so that things like this wouldnt happen?
by kraftman 11y ago
didnt skype used to be p2p so that things like this wouldnt happen?
- shin_lao 11y agoIt used to be. But Microsoft made it more centralized.
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- mironathetin 11y agoIndeed, great move. Although, judging upon the number of comments, no-one seems to care that much.
- yread 11y agoWell they said it was because of the post-pc era, more mobile phones connecting to skype, mobile phones are not really suited for p2p video streaming. But then they somehow managed to make skype mobile experience so bad that it probably wouldn't be that big of a problem
- Mahn 11y agoIt was never fully p2p was it? Calls and messaging may have been p2p at some point before Microsoft, but you still needed an account managed by a centralized entity to authenticate with the service.
- Jasper_ 11y agoHeavens no. Skype used to be extremely unreliable back when it was P2P-based. Calls or voice used to drop for minutes at a time. Text messages would get lost to the aether, or come in doubles or triples. Skype peers were unreliable, so they identified good peers, which they tagged as SuperNodes, or SNs. Large amounts of these SuperNodes could go down in an instant due to network outages out of their control, buggy software, bad computers, and more. The Skype blog is full of "whoops, too many supernodes went down!" from 2008-2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110829025128/http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/skype_downtime_today.html http://web.archive.org/web/20110829025128/http://blogs.skype... They then added dedicated "mega-supernodes" which they just shoved in an EC2 cloud, and after non-mega SN population declined as mobile took off, they just turned off the P2P-based SN feature.
- Ace17 11y agoTox-im is peer to peer, and calls work rather well (voice + video).