Funny trick from my telco

A couple of times a week I like to enjoy a good voice chat with friends abroad and I use Skype for this.

Last night I checked for updates, and found that version 2.0 is now officially released (rather than being just a Beta), so I tried to download it from the Skype website.  Strange though, I could only get a download speed that is little more than what I'd get with a dial-up connection.  I checked my ADSL's bandwidth, and it was as good as usual, well over 2 Mbps.  In theory, I should be able to download at about 270 kB/s, but I was getting like 8 kB/s.

I tried this many times cause the 9.5 MB download was even failing in the middle of it as if I was really using a plain telephone line for this!

So after a while of this useless charade, I tried to find some mirror site or something, and bumped into softpedia.  When I gave this one a shot, I got my new Skype download at a speed of aroud 15 kB/s.  This, in combination with a good download manager, got me my brand new Skype!