[RKDinOKC]

It was on Skype's end. After trying all sorts of stuff opened a trouble ticket.
Took about an hour for support to call, but when they did, skye magically worked with no problems.
I even did the Microsoft trouble shooting app for Skype and it couldn't authenticate.
After their call the Trouble Shooting App found no problems.
Support never admited to doing anything.

Have been trying to get my VPN to let me access a new authentication server for over a week now. Turns out in setting it up the network guy changed the VPN server. It now requires you to route all your network traffic thru the VPN server. That chokes my download speed from almost 100mbps to 14mbps. OUCH. Does the same thing on my PC.

When I controlled our firewall/vpn router, I set it to only route for specific IP address ranges so you would NOT have to route everything thru it. Yikes, very lazy network guy if you ask me.

Going to make a virtual mac on my Fuzion and have it do all my mac VPN stuff. That will keep the speed up on my regular mac. I can even share a printer from my virtual mac so I can print on a printer at work thru the VPN from an app on my host mac. That way I won't be slowing down my regular mac's network.