Comments on: Universities banning Skype

By: Phil Wolff

Phil Wolff — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:19:59 +0000

Just a fact or two.

SJSU hasn’t banned Skype, but they’re thinking about it. We’re covering this at Skype Journal and I’m speaking at a community forum to discuss it.

By: french reader

french reader — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:49:19 +0000

I am using a macintosh that tells me who wants to open which port when an application is first launched, and I must say that contrary to *all* other VOIP applications, Skype really shocked me in asking to open something like 90% of all ports in the firewall (thousands of them).

I suppose this is the reason given in the original article (’grid-like computing’) and honestly I tend to agree with it. All the more than all other VOIP means don’t behave like this, and remain allowed.

Now, I sort of remember somewhere in the Skype help, they say that if you don’t want to open all and every port, there is a single one that you may use: I would recommend trying this…

By: Viriiman

Viriiman — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:52:43 +0000

It’s ovbious why their blocking. As much as they want to claim it’s all about network traffic (and it may partially be), it’s more about charging students out the ying-yang for old outdated telephone service in their doorms.

By: biga

biga — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:36:04 +0000

my high school blocks half the internet i think, including aim ( but not msn, gtalk, skype, jabber, icq or most any other) but for most anything i can get with tor. not sure if i could set skype up to use tor though, so that might be a problem. either way, that sucks. stupid collage

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:13:12 +0000

That sucks, what university is it – I’ll have to write a stern letter.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:02:15 +0000

Our school has a policy agianst, yep, you guessed it, UNEASYsilence. It isn’t given acess on the general student body acount, but Any student in the Technology Academy has acess to it.