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I was trying to know if I send a file through Skype to friend who is in same LAN as me then whether it will get transferred via LAN or it will consume some my internet bandwidth also.
I have searched a little bit but I found links about Skype calls not file transfers. So I’m not pretty sure if skype file transfers doesn’t consumes internet bandwidth. Is anyone sure here? Any reference?
KEYSS.Imdad
Posted 2012-05-16T11:06:04.170
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Microsoft and Skype appear to have made a final decision to totally remove any fast peer-to-peer file transfers, as of at least version 6.18, released in August, 2014.
Your only option for FAST LAN file transfers is to downgrade to a previous version, before 6.18.
Version 6.14 appeared to be more stable than 6.16; but I need to confirm. Further, there are no longer ANY previous versions of Skype available from Microsoft/Skype, and you must obtain them from places like the WayBack Machine.
If you downgrade your Skype version, this will likely be temporary. I predict that all updates will become forced very soon, as they've stated that all auto-updates will mandatory with Windows 10. This also will mean they will permanently break any previous versions of Skype. As of today, March 31, 2015, Skype is now upgraded automatically through Windows update, KB2876229. Your only option for disabling this is to right click in Windows Update, and choose HIDE. But, even this may be temporary, since a future update may “unhide” that KB, or issue a new one, just as they did with the Windows 8.0-8.1 forced upgrade. This will still not disable updates from being requested inside versions 6.18-6.22, for which you must also turn off the “Skype update service.”
Here are some tested links: VERIFY the MD-5:
Skype 6.21.0.104 (EXE version) [web.archive.org = from Skype]
File size= 36,039,776
MD-5= 6082D256DCDCD068F76B677DB8ED1181
(Thanks JakeGould for helping me straighten out all the links and formatting -- I think it's now close to perfect)
DaaBoss
Posted 2012-05-16T11:06:04.170
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Just try it. You'll see if it is done with LAN speed or internet speed. – Daniel Andersson – 2012-05-16T11:49:21.480
I have tried it. Sometimes transfer is pretty fast. sometimes its very slow. That's why I'm not getting sure about it. – KEYSS.Imdad – 2012-05-16T11:57:28.927
If direct connection is possible, it should use it. If not (NAT or firewall in the way) it will fall back to relayed transfer. Perhaps it is smart enough to only require one of the parts to be directly connectable. – Daniel Andersson – 2012-05-16T12:06:18.137
1This may no longer be the case, what with Microsoft changing the way Skype works to make calls easier to intercept. There was also the issue of being able to track a Skype users' IP address, hence the new
Allow direct connection to your contacts onlyoption under Options->Advanced->Connection – Basic – 2014-02-01T11:43:15.500