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Do you have any experience in Voice over Ip telephony? I've been using Skype software and can say only the best things about it. If you talk with another person who's also using Skype the call is 100% percent free, and if you call someone on the phone you pay like 0,1 Euro cents per minute.. Check it out...

In France, some internet-access providers offer with the "box" (modem) free calls.

I've one, it's great. If you call someone who have a box it's 100% free. And the most interesting is if you call someone on the phone it's free too .
Only one bad point : you pay when you call a cellular phone but lower from a normal phone.

Then the box can do wifi-access point & router.

In top of that, I've plugged my box on tv and I have 78 channels (200 available if you pay for some channels) freely.

That's why I think software like skype will not be used in future because Internet providers will give phone services freely.

I think the same thing about satellite tv...

Skype is really nice i use it too but it isnt totally free you still have to pay for yıur internet bill plus i have skypeout too so i can phone normal lines

Skype is pretty cool. My only gripe is that they have no IP blocking. A friend of mine runs a little live podcast show and he gets lots of prank callers. Problem is that its the same 2-3 people.

Yea, Skype rocks. I have used it from the beginning and it gets better and better. Now it includes video and file transfer too. And voicemail, that's interesting update. But in other hand, it goes commercial for a little speed. For example, you have to pay before using voicemail.

But pc-to-pc calls will be free forever, if they doesn't eat their words

I also use Skype and it's tops. Guess the future is not Orange

i havent tried it yet.. is it 100% free?

i tired and it didn't quite work out for me since whenever i tried to run it. it will work for around 2 secs and freeze up. for the fact that i have a 2.5Ghz cpu with decent audio card. i will be helding this against skype for now. i mainly use either teamspeak and ventrilo to takl to my friend over the internet.
just complaing about skype or everything, it does require more cpu power to run it than teamspeak since i've tested them on a laptop with 233mhz of cpu and teamspeak runs fine, in contrast, skype freezes up.

I've been using skype for some weeks, instead of msn messenger, never got problems from it. The only thing I really don't like is the file transfer rates. Never got more than 1 KB/s

I used Skype too, but there were two things I didn't like: the transfer rates & the bugs. Skype needed a lot of speed from my connection and often Skype caused problems and ended the call. Now I'm mostly using MSN-Messenger to talk with my friends.

VoIp is good thing i've tryed it whit skype and it's rock you can set up and conference and translate it trought some Internet radio :-) like i once did :-)

ummm is it free? I heard that we must pay for the service card..

i also can say only good things about skype
the quality is much better as when you use
teamspeak or vertril.. you just ahve more traffic
i never tried skypeout but when its like skype to skype
iam going to try it

Hi all!! ;o) skype is good and so on, but Does anyone know a decent voice chat program for linux?!?
Skype has a linux versoin too, but I don't think that's what I want.. I need a simple program to connect to another computer by IP address and be able to talk to each other
(like picophone for win ?!? yeah, somethin' like that..)
So if someone knows a proper soft for me please reply ;o) I meant "simpla" as simple as it can be ;o) (low cpu req.)
thanks ;o)

zenx wrote:I need a simple program to connect to another computer by IP address and be able to talk to each other
(like picophone for win ?!? yeah, somethin' like that..)

Gnomemeeting. By protocol it's also compatible to things like Netmeeting.