Can NetEqualizer Block Skype?
The short answer is no, it is not designed to this mission however we have been accused of blocking skype, and yes it would be possible. Below follows some more discussion on the subject . I got a call from a customer the other day who claimed our NetEqualizer was working great, except that it was interfering with their Skype calls, and he wanted us to make it stop. The problem is we were not touching his Skype calls at all. And then it hit me. His upstream ISP must be interrupting them. I can’t be sure of this, but there really was no other explanation. His access was good and we checked a couple of Skype calls and their bandwidth load was well below the threshold of anything the NetEqualizer would touch by design. Then I had another Aha moment while looking at their Skype streams on our built-in sniffer. The calls seemed to stay fairly steady in a tight range around 16kbs. It would be very easy and low-cost to target streams in this range and periodically drop some packets, enough to
