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Voip?
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seattle
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Is anybody here using VOIP at home with a Mac? If so, tell me about your success or failure. I'm considering the plunge.
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PowerMac G4 Gigabit 1.2GHz, 896MB, 2x 80GB WD SE, Pioneer 107, Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB
Macintosh TV
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Tampa, FL
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I use Skype and it works great! You can even make calls to a landline for cheap.
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Cheers,
SweetsDream
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Always within bluetooth range
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Thanks for the tip, Skype looks great !! Have you used the conference calling feature at all ??
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Tampa, FL
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Conference calling doesn't work with the OS X version yet.
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Cheers,
SweetsDream
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Moderator  Join Date: May 2001
Location: Hilbert space
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I use Skype frequently. It works perfectly with quality better than telephone. No annoying lag, even to Japan or the States (from Europe) and voice group chat works fine if you can make something out of the noise of several people talking 
Oh, sorry, I used conference calling on the PC version only.
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: London, UK
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I've been using voip for quite a while.
I use free world diallup and nikotel, both from my mac and from a sipura phone adapter. Free world diallup is very useful for me, I live in Borneo, but most of the family live in the UK. There is a local rate number they can dial that allows them to dial my fwd account and rings the phone here. I can also call freephone numbers around the world which is useful for customer support issues etc.
Nikotel is what I use to phone regular landlines and costs about US2c/minute which is vastly cheaper than the local phone company.
Just experimenting with skype, so can't really tell you much about it yet. Looks good though.
Only ever use the regular phone for local calls nowadays.
J.
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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out - Richard Dawkins
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Chicago, IL
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Originally posted by Freeflyer:
I've been using voip for quite a while.
I use free world diallup and nikotel, both from my mac and from a sipura phone adapter. Free world diallup is very useful for me, I live in Borneo, but most of the family live in the UK. There is a local rate number they can dial that allows them to dial my fwd account and rings the phone here. I can also call freephone numbers around the world which is useful for customer support issues etc.
Nikotel is what I use to phone regular landlines and costs about US2c/minute which is vastly cheaper than the local phone company.
Just experimenting with skype, so can't really tell you much about it yet. Looks good though.
Only ever use the regular phone for local calls nowadays.
J.
What do you use for internet access? Just a voice line and DSL from your local telco?
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: London, UK
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Originally posted by danbrew:
What do you use for internet access? Just a voice line and DSL from your local telco?
Exactly that. My dsl is only 256, so I can't have downloads going when I want to use voip, and just browsing creates problems. I'm looking at a router that does shaping and quality monitoring.
DSL is all you need for voip. It rocks.
J.
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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out - Richard Dawkins
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