Thanks for the update Alan. I can see the reason for an internal Skype service to run (similar to Bonjuour) which would help discover other users within a LAN but for the N900 to communicate out to random residential IPs does not give me a very good feeling.

Maybe I'm just ignorant about the Skype protocol and how it works...I just don't know anyone who uses a residential DSL connection in Des Moines and why my N900 needs to connect to them.