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by st3fan 5660 days ago
I seriously doubt the Skype supernodes actually run in regular clients on people's desktops. I'm pretty sure these are special servers placed strategically on the net.

If you see thousands of connections on your Skype at home then there probably is some weird P2P problem going on.

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I'm sorry to be the one who has to point this out, but you have no idea what you are talking about.

http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/security/universities/