Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

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. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se