[p2p-hackers] UDP hole punching performance

[Alex Pankratov]

Matthew Kaufman wrote:

> Yariv Sadan writes:
> 
> ... But on a
> cross-country connection, our file transfers have clocked at 11-18 *times*
> faster than Skype's current implemntation of file transfer over UDP.
> 

Do you make this comparison with two Skype clients residing
behind two different NAT devices ?

AFAIK in this case Skype won't be doing hole punching and
be relaying the traffic through a third node instead. It
will also rate-limit the transfer to a max of 5KB/sec (?).