My unawareness shouldn't be taken to mean anything beyond my own personal ignorance on the matter. There was a lot of interest in getting under Skype's hood, reverse engineering, and the like, a couple of years ago. Due to its proprietary nature, however, many have lost interest in pursuing it further, despite a following of developers who've built applications around it. What I meant was, I wasn't aware of the sort of targeted performance measurements you referred to earlier. But I'm sure they've been taken and published somewhere, but unbeknownst to me. I'll check out what's been going on over in the world of Henning Schulzrinne, who performed the initial analysis on Skype at Columbia University in 2004, and see if he's published anything new on the subject that might be helpful.
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Edit: No guarantees, but this paper written in 2006 (below) appears to have some of the information you're looking for. Let us all know what you happen to find there ;)
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Design and Implementation of 2.4GHz Wireless Skype Phone
Shanq-Jang Ruan, Yi -Ruei Lai and Chin-Kun Wen
Department of Electronic Engineering
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
No.43, Sec.4, Keelung Rd., Taipei, 106, Taiwan, R.O.C.
paper.ijcsns.org
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Another afterthought: Actual network performance findings during the period 2004-2007, where, say, 802.11a/b/g was used, may not bee too useful for anyone using Skype today over 802.11n, since the latter affords the user a much higher degree of throughput capability.
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