[ars]

Yup. But they do mention it when installing. You can also disable it.

If you are not firewalled or NATd you are a supernode automatically - on the plus side you get better sound quality for voice calls.

Normally the bandwidth used is pretty low since you are mostly forwarding text messages.

When they said mega-supernodes they meant machines controlled by them that do nothing else, and are on high bandwidth connections. (My bet is lots of amazon instances.)

[yellowbkpk]

I've looked around for the ability to turn off supernode on Linux and Mac clients for a while but have come up empty. Do you know which section of the preferences/settings it's supposed to be in?

[NikkiA]

I don't think there's a UI element for it, but you have to add a registry key, see here:

https://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/SkypeConfiguration...

[pyre]

How pray-tell, does a Windows registry entry disable super node functionality on Linux and/or MacOSX?

[neworbit]

Well barring effective virtualization, booting into Windows disables supernode functionality on Windows and MacOSX in the same sense that a brownout does