[125623] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Apr 20 12:39:14 2010
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:38:33 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004201116100.59087@joyce.lan>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, John R. Levine wrote:
> Skype video chat, all the time, works fine. Don't remember about file
> transfer.
Whenever I am behind NAT and talk to someone else who is behind NAT skype
seems to lower the quality, my guess it's because it now bounces traffic
via another non-NATed node.
These kind of applications work best if there is at least one non-NATed
party involved, especially for video etc.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
