![]() ![]() Per a page on the Skype support site, Skype might be using TCP ports anywhere in the range 1000 through 65000.Īfter a fair amount of research and dead ends, the working solution that I finally landed on was the free version of a software package named Murus, which provides a GUI wrapper around the Packet Filter firewall functionality that comes with macOS. Skype for Mac (version 8.39) itself also doesn't provide a quality slider or other rate limiter it always appears to consume as much as it can.Ĭomplicating matters, Skype 8 also doesn't specify or allow configuration of which specific TCP ports it uses, for possible QoS throttling at the router. Unfortunately, macOS 10.14 Mojave does not provide an out-of-the-box a way to limit the bandwidth used by a particular application. ![]() ![]() Over the course of the typical 6 hours per day where my team (Pacific Time / GMT -8) and I (Eastern Time / GMT -5) are both online, that works out to about 7.5 GB per day which in turn works out to about 150 GB over a 4-week period where I'm in the office 5 days per week. Using the Network tab of my macOS copy of Activity Monitor, it turns out that it was quite a bit: An average of around 350 KB per second (with peaks over 400 KB/sec). Between my job, and my family's normal Internet usage, we've been either coming close to, or exceeding, that cap on a regular basis.Īs one part of a strategy to try and keep my home's Internet usage under the cap, I looked into how much bandwidth that always-on Skype call was using. Unfortunately, as with many Americans - particularly in localities where only a single company provides high-speed land-line Internet - my Internet service provider recently started imposing a bandwidth cap on my monthly Internet usage. We're currently using Microsoft's Skype as our videoconferencing solution, as it is the only one I've found that (1) works reasonably reliably (2) supports auto-answer (so I can activate the call without someone in the office needing to manually answer it every day) and (3) is free. ![]() To help maintain close communication with my team, I have a "telepresence" Skype call with the office that's always on, so my teammates and I can see and talk to one another. I'm a full-time remote worker, with all of my teammates located together in the office. ![]()
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