Skypes meant to be p2p network with multiple connection nodes probably in the hundreds and the claim of it going down to a network fault doesn't make any sense to me. So many machines would have to all go down at one time and as far as I know skype updated nothing yesterday. My theory quite possibly wrong I'm thinking they were adding a Government backdoor/worm of some sort and it went wrong it's actually the only thing that makes sense. I still can't connect to it hope it comes back up soon though.