Larry wrote in news:Xns9802D1FBDBF7Fnoonehomecom@
208.49.80.253:

"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in
news:gMxug.166$ok5.156@dukeread01:

Skype can do more than that even. When I Skype to Skype a friend on
Tortola and his computer doesn't answer it tries his land line. If
that doesn't answer after 4 or 5 rings it tries his cell. You just
can't hide anywhere! :-)



He still has a landline?? Why??...(c;

Clearly you don't have a lot of experience with Caribbean Internet service if
you're asking that question...Having just spent the past 7 months in
Honduras, Belize and the Bahamas, I can assure you that the quality of calls
varies tremendously minute to minute. In general we could hear fine, but our
transmission was often unreadable. We went back to using our Iridium at
$1.25/min due to this.

Many of the connections were over DirecWay (now Hughes) satellite connections
and there's a large propagation delay on top of large packet losses. On the
rare occasion where we had a DSL connection, things worked better, but in
general the networks are heavily loaded. Don't confuse US broadband
connections with what you find in the Caribbean. I would never give up my
land based phone line (or cellular) and rely on Skype in the Caribbean.

-- Geoff