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I finally took the plunge for the full Skype internet phone package
tonight. I have the Linksys CIT200 wireless Skype phone whos base station is plugged into my laptop. Any wifi hotspot provides me Skype phone service to the planet, a real boon to cruisers I'd think. http://tinyurl.com/rj6cw Circuit City wants $99 for the phone but you can get it for $80 on the net from several stores. Skype Out....dialing landlines and mobiles. If anyone buys the Linksys CIT200 Skype wireless phone, the secret to dialing landline and cellphone numbers from the handset is to always dial US landline and cellular numbers with 0111-area code-number which works like a champ, or if 0111 bothers you hold down the 0 button for 1 second and it will put a + on screen which does the same thing as 0111. Put all your favorite landline/cellular numbers on the contact list on the laptop to eliminate all dialing completely. US/Canada phone numbers are free until 2007. UK is free this weekend, to landline phones in UK only...not mobiles. All this is SkypeOut. Skype In.....your own STABLE phone number where YOU want it, no matter where you are, without the cellular roaming and other funny business.... I bought Skype In for the princely sum of $US38/YEAR, too. I chose a local Charleston, SC, phone number because that's where most of my phone calls come from. A thought came to me as SkypeIn asked me where I wanted my phone in number to be located. It doesn't care. If you have lots of calls coming from Chicago, even though you live in Florida, you can have a Chicago (or wherever) phone number so family/friends would be making a local free call to call you in Florida or anyplace else....not some long distance scam from Ma Bell. Skype doesn't care where YOU are just where it makes the landline-to-Skype connection....CRUISERS CAN HAVE A STABLE PHONE NUMBER WITH FREE VOICEMAIL FOR $38/YEAR....not per minute! If your computer is offline, no Skype, the calls go to Skype voicemail. You can also tell Skype to forward calls to a telephone number, like your cellphone. Unlike that cryptic crap on your cellphone voicemail memorizing and pressing number buttons, Skype has a whole computer interface with a PLAY button right out there in plain sight! Whereever you have internet service, even dialup, you have Skype service and can get the voicemails, automatically returning calls very inexpensively (2.1 cents US to most civilized landlines, but free to US/Canadian phones FROM INSIDE THE USA/CANADA until Jan 1, 2007) Works great...especially for $38/year for a phone number that works! I especially like the part about NO FEES, NO FUNNY BUSINESS, NO TAXES! |
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I finally took the plunge for the full Skype internet phone package tonight. I have the Linksys CIT200 wireless Skype phone whos base station is plugged into my laptop. Any wifi hotspot provides me Skype phone service to the planet, a real boon to cruisers I'd think. http://tinyurl.com/rj6cw Circuit City wants $99 for the phone but you can get it for $80 on the net from several stores. Skype Out....dialing landlines and mobiles. If anyone buys the Linksys CIT200 Skype wireless phone, the secret to dialing landline and cellphone numbers from the handset is to always dial US landline and cellular numbers with 0111-area code-number which works like a champ, or if 0111 bothers you hold down the 0 button for 1 second and it will put a + on screen which does the same thing as 0111. Put all your favorite landline/cellular numbers on the contact list on the laptop to eliminate all dialing completely. US/Canada phone numbers are free until 2007. UK is free this weekend, to landline phones in UK only...not mobiles. All this is SkypeOut. Skype In.....your own STABLE phone number where YOU want it, no matter where you are, without the cellular roaming and other funny business.... I bought Skype In for the princely sum of $US38/YEAR, too. I chose a local Charleston, SC, phone number because that's where most of my phone calls come from. A thought came to me as SkypeIn asked me where I wanted my phone in number to be located. It doesn't care. If you have lots of calls coming from Chicago, even though you live in Florida, you can have a Chicago (or wherever) phone number so family/friends would be making a local free call to call you in Florida or anyplace else....not some long distance scam from Ma Bell. Skype doesn't care where YOU are just where it makes the landline-to-Skype connection....CRUISERS CAN HAVE A STABLE PHONE NUMBER WITH FREE VOICEMAIL FOR $38/YEAR....not per minute! If your computer is offline, no Skype, the calls go to Skype voicemail. You can also tell Skype to forward calls to a telephone number, like your cellphone. Unlike that cryptic crap on your cellphone voicemail memorizing and pressing number buttons, Skype has a whole computer interface with a PLAY button right out there in plain sight! Whereever you have internet service, even dialup, you have Skype service and can get the voicemails, automatically returning calls very inexpensively (2.1 cents US to most civilized landlines, but free to US/Canadian phones FROM INSIDE THE USA/CANADA until Jan 1, 2007) Works great...especially for $38/year for a phone number that works! I especially like the part about NO FEES, NO FUNNY BUSINESS, NO TAXES! Ever hear the saying "there's no free lunch"? What worries me about Skype is that I get everything setup to make calls, which are FREE until 2007, and then in 2007 suddenly there is a big fee to use it. Sounds like a big come-on to suck you in then sock it to you. What is their business model to make money. I'm sure they are not an altruistic organization. krj |
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"cvj" wrote in
: As far as the free calls until 2007 that will probably stop...but again the cost (before the freebie) for calling within the US/Canada was very modest on the order of 2/10th of a cent per minute... 2.1 US cents per minute after the freebie, or now from phones outside US and Canada. Skype is a real bargain.... |
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I use Skype regularly in the Caribbean. Once you get out of Cingular or
other US cell co range land lines to the US are up to $2 and cell phone roaming charges can be even higher. Skype is 2 cents/minute and there in lies a potential problem. Most island governments get a cut of that $2. As Skype gets more popular with tourists and locals the CARICOM telecom committees are going to start scurrying around trying to figure a way to tax it. Meanwhile I love it. For years I rented a satellite phone and paid $1/minute. This year I just cranked up the laptop and looked for a free hot spot. -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com "Larry" wrote in message ... "cvj" wrote in : As far as the free calls until 2007 that will probably stop...but again the cost (before the freebie) for calling within the US/Canada was very modest on the order of 2/10th of a cent per minute... 2.1 US cents per minute after the freebie, or now from phones outside US and Canada. Skype is a real bargain.... |
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"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in
news:IPUtg.20$ok5.7@dukeread01: As Skype gets more popular with tourists and locals the CARICOM telecom committees are going to start scurrying around trying to figure a way to tax it. Islands aren't the only one's trying to tax it..... The American bureaucrats are trying to hijack it, too, I assume. Everytime I think about that $38/YEAR phone number for SkypeIn, I think, geez, if Skype is making money on $38/YEAR, what's Bell$outh making on $38/MONTH?! Someone sent me the joke below, today. I thought it would make a great tagline.....(c; -- Welcome to America! Thank you for calling.... Please choose from the following menu: Press 1 for English Press 2 to disconnect until you learn English |
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"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in
news:IPUtg.20$ok5.7@dukeread01: As Skype gets more popular with tourists and locals the CARICOM telecom committees are going to start scurrying around trying to figure a way to tax it. I think they have two hard-to-resolve problems...... 1 - Skype is in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, one of those little places on earth the rich store their money in exchange for Luxembourg keeping its mouth shut. I doubt the long arm of any bureaucrat would get much information on who you call, much less who you paid and how much. 2 - Skype uses ANY old port it wants, not Port 12345. I don't even think the NSA's mainframes are large enough to find every port Skype uses on every American's computer across the country. Besides, did we mention it's ENCRYPTED from Skype to Skype? Mine says it's encrypted. Who am I talking to if you can't even tell it's a phone call, not a file transfer?? NSA also has more important things to worry about than being tax police bureaucrats. -- Thank you for calling our service department. Please choose from the following menu options: Press 1 for English. Press 2 to disconnect until you learn English. |
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can anyone provide me "step by step" info and how to subscribe to Skype and
what equipment I would need to buy? Thanks, J -- "Larry" wrote in message ... "Glenn Ashmore" wrote in news:IPUtg.20$ok5.7@dukeread01: As Skype gets more popular with tourists and locals the CARICOM telecom committees are going to start scurrying around trying to figure a way to tax it. I think they have two hard-to-resolve problems...... 1 - Skype is in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, one of those little places on earth the rich store their money in exchange for Luxembourg keeping its mouth shut. I doubt the long arm of any bureaucrat would get much information on who you call, much less who you paid and how much. 2 - Skype uses ANY old port it wants, not Port 12345. I don't even think the NSA's mainframes are large enough to find every port Skype uses on every American's computer across the country. Besides, did we mention it's ENCRYPTED from Skype to Skype? Mine says it's encrypted. Who am I talking to if you can't even tell it's a phone call, not a file transfer?? NSA also has more important things to worry about than being tax police bureaucrats. -- Thank you for calling our service department. Please choose from the following menu options: Press 1 for English. Press 2 to disconnect until you learn English. |
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It's very easy.
Click on this link and follow the directions to download/install Skype on your 'puter. It's free: www.skype.com If you have a microphone plugged into your PC, you don't need any other equipment to get started (I assume your PC has speakers.)_ If you find you really use Skype a lot, you might spring for a Linksys CIT 200 for about $100. or so depending on the vendor. Cheers, cvj "just me" wrote in message . .. can anyone provide me "step by step" info and how to subscribe to Skype and what equipment I would need to buy? Thanks, J -- "Larry" wrote in message ... "Glenn Ashmore" wrote in news:IPUtg.20$ok5.7@dukeread01: As Skype gets more popular with tourists and locals the CARICOM telecom committees are going to start scurrying around trying to figure a way to tax it. I think they have two hard-to-resolve problems...... 1 - Skype is in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, one of those little places on earth the rich store their money in exchange for Luxembourg keeping its mouth shut. I doubt the long arm of any bureaucrat would get much information on who you call, much less who you paid and how much. 2 - Skype uses ANY old port it wants, not Port 12345. I don't even think the NSA's mainframes are large enough to find every port Skype uses on every American's computer across the country. Besides, did we mention it's ENCRYPTED from Skype to Skype? Mine says it's encrypted. Who am I talking to if you can't even tell it's a phone call, not a file transfer?? NSA also has more important things to worry about than being tax police bureaucrats. -- Thank you for calling our service department. Please choose from the following menu options: Press 1 for English. Press 2 to disconnect until you learn English. |
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In article ,
Larry wrote: 2 - Skype uses ANY old port it wants, not Port 12345. I don't even think the NSA's mainframes are large enough to find every port Skype uses on every American's computer across the country. Besides, did we mention it's ENCRYPTED from Skype to Skype? Mine says it's encrypted. Who am I talking to if you can't even tell it's a phone call, not a file transfer?? NSA also has more important things to worry about than being tax police bureaucrats. Well, not really a problem, as NSA's Mainframes look at ALL the IP traffic coming into or out of each SAT Transponder, and can, and do, archive all that data for later analysis, if needed. They don't really care what IP Port the traffic is using, as that doesn't really come into play, except on the receiving computer end, anyway. NSA's Cyrptic Section, regularly deals with much "Meaner" cyphers that what Skype uses in the datastream of their IP Phone drivers. They may not be doing "Realtime" Decrypting, but if they have need to, it is really easy, and very possible. Me |
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"just me" wrote in
: can anyone provide me "step by step" info and how to subscribe to Skype and what equipment I would need to buy? Thanks, J That's real easy..... Go to http://www.skype.com/ Download Skype and run the installer like any other program. When it runs the first time, Skype's interface will ask you to fill in the blanks and register itself, automatically. There, now you're on Skype. Plug in a MICROPHONE or a headset with a mic to the computer's audio system. Doubleclick on Skype Test Call on your contact list and a pretty English girl will answer (no she's a recording, relax). After the beep, talk into your microphone is a normal voice you'd use to talk to anyone. After 10 seconds of recording your voice, she'll play your voice back to you through Skype so you can hear how good you sound, or don't sound at all. Call as many times as you need to to get your voice sounding good. Skype is capable, as default, of adjusting your audio dynamically so your voice sounds great. To check this click on the Skype interface: Tools Options Sound Devices and put a check in "Let Skype adjust my sound device settings" if it is not already checked. Skype will adjust your audio continuously so you're always the right level, unless it runs out of range on your soundcard interface. When this is checked, Skype adjusts whatever sound device is currently being used by WinXP, whether it be the computer's sound card, or a USB headset you plugged in or the Skype Phone interface from Linksys or other manufacturers. I've tested it with great results with: Logitech notebook cams (Skype does video from Skype to Skype) Logitech ball cams on my home computer Logitech USB stereo headset with builtin microphone and I just got a Cyber Acoustics AC-740 earclip headset/mic that looks like what the brothers wear for their cellphones to use when I carry the notebook off and don't want to carry the Linksys Skype Phone and its interface. The audio on this unit isn't as loud as I'd like, but is very usable. The mic audio works great and you just unplug the headphones and use the notebook's speakers for conference calling to drive the people at the next table nuts listening to your call to Japan. Now, once you have Skype up and running for free, there are a couple of other matters you can add right from your Skype interface.... Skype Out - Connects Skype to any telephone or cellphone on the planet Skype In - Connects the telephone system on the planet to your Skype on the computer allowing anyone, computerized or not, to call you. Skype Out is easy, just charge up your account by clicking TOOLS then SKYPE OUT at the top of Skype. The Buy Skype Credit window will popup and allow you to use your credit card to buy a $10 credit charge on your account. Skype Out works until January without a money chargeup to any phone in the USA or Canada PROVIDING you are IN the USA or Canada. Calls from Tortola to USA will be 2.1 US cents per minute, .017 Euro. Calls from Bangledesh to Des Moines are also 2.1c/min. Skype doesn't care where you call FROM as it's on the internet. From your Skype to anyone else's Skype, computer to computer calls, are always free between any points on the internet. The other night we were on a Skype Conference call between a bunch of nuts and had EVERY continent, even Antarctica to some guys wintering over, on the conference...(c; Skype In is also purchased the same way. Click TOOLS then SKYPE IN and it will open Internet Explorer to a secure webpage. Skype In is in beta testing, but don't let that bother you, it's solid here in backwater SC. Skype In sets up a telephone number on "some system" you get to choose, not necessarily where your home is located. You tell Skype In's signup webpages where your telephone number should be located in and it will find the closest of their ports. Once on the port, it will ask you for your favorite last 4 digits of the phone number so you can make it somewhat more easy to remember for everyone. Mine is the same last 4 numbers as my cellphone. Of course, you don't get to choose the exact exchange. Skype In is an exhorbitant expense.....$12 for 3 months or $38/year! That's per YEAR, not like Bell$not's per MONTH. CHEEP! They said it would take a few hours to activate when I signed up for mine. It was activated in less than 2 minutes, here. Once activated, you can access the setup on your Skype interface for Skype In. With Skype In you get FREE Skype Voicemail, so people can leave Skype a message when you're not online. Skype will tell you who called, when, dialback to them on command with Skype Out all from the BIG COMPUTER SCREEN, not that tiny damned little icon in your cellphone only teenagers can see...(c; There's also a play button next to any caller that's on your contact list, either skype contact or phone contact. Skype also does call forwarding for free. I have Skype configured so that if I'm online, but busy or away, incoming calls go to voicemail. If I'm offline completely, Skype forwards all calls, to my cellphone number. You can have it dump all calls to Skype voicemail if you like...your choice. When you're in Skype-to-Skype contact with someone, computer to computer, Skype opens up more features, of course. Live color webcam video...just plug in any webcam your computer is configured for. There's a button on the interface window to turn video on and off when you are already connected to someone. If they're on dialup or you are, put video out of your mind. There isn't enough bandwidth on dialup. You can also click up to CHAT with any of your contacts. Keyboard to keyboard chat. This is useful when you're on Skype to a phone. Skype tells other Skype contacts you are offline when you make a phonecall. They can still let you know what they want by initiating a chat, instead of a voice call. You can talk on the phone with her, while typing to someone else on the chat mode if you are a multitasker...(c; Skype will also send and receive files. You have a ton of pictures of the offshore race on your digital camera. You plug the camera or memory card into the laptop, call someone on Skype-to-Skype and send them that picture of you beating S/V "Losers" always-winning boat across that finish line to the astonishment of the race committee on the dock.....long before the protest flag goes up!...(c; Skype will send SMS messages to less fortunate people who only have cellular phones. It has Conference calling mode where you can connect Skype users and phone users up in a big conference call where everyone can hear everyone else curse those stupid business decisions the boss has made. Skype Me! Skype is like a telephone in most of its modes. You're not exposed to every nutcase on the planet like IRC chat rooms or AOL/MSN/Danny's Tire chatrooms. However, there are times when you might want to meet someone new or just fool around with new people across the planet. That's Skype Me!. To the left of your name field under the control buttons is a green panel with white checkmark, the Skype logo. There's one in your tray that works, too, while Skype is booted. Click it and a pick menu pops up so you can change your Skype Status....online, offline, busy, Away (I'm on the head and can't answer right now), not available or do not disturb (My Skype is online, but I don't want anyone to call me while my girlfriend is this horny), Invisible (you don't show up on anyone's contact list during bouts of paranoid schizophrenia), and....Skype Me! Skype Me! puts you on the public network and ignores your privacy settings so everyone can see you and call you. It's great fun, especially if you put your personal interests, like boating or cruising, in your personal profile so you're easy to search for. There is a search button on the Skype interface. Search is how you find your friends on Skype. Skype Name, full name or email address is all you need. There is a checkbox to check to limit the search to people in Skype Me! mode who have laid themselves open to ridicule and will talk to anyone..... There are lots of kids, or cops/FBI agents posing as kids on Skype Me! looking to make a name for themselves to get promoted catching pedophiles. The best way to deflect the obvious cop trap is to say hello and goodbye all at once, just in case it is a kid, not a cop. No sense making the kids feel like lepers, even though thats how the paranoid Christians want you to treat them. Just like on any internet chatroom, the real kids come in two types, those looking for other kids and those looking for nasty sex with adults. Anyone can see how OLD you are in your Skype profile. They know who they're calling. I'd never call anyone under 18 years old in the current mindset, of the USA especially. The whole country's gone berserk.... Remember the McMartin Preschool Persecutions?? Well, there's lots more Skype I haven't covered, but this ought to keep you busy until Jan 1, 2007 when Skype Out goes to 2.1c/min. That's 7 HOURS for $10...no taxes, no fees, no funnybusiness...$10, total! UK landline phones are also free today and tomorrow, but not their cellphones, which cost everyone way too much to call. Next weekend, Mexico landline phones are free all weekend on Skype, if there's anyone left in Mexico to answer them....(sigh) Skype's website has manuals for all the other stuff.... Gotta go....got a call from Hawaii. Maybe I'll go visiting over Christmas...(c; -- Welcome to America! Thank you for calling.... Please choose from the following menu: Press 1 for English Press 2 to disconnect until you learn English |
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In article , Larry wrote: 2 - Skype uses ANY old port it wants, not Port 12345. I don't even think the NSA's mainframes are large enough to find every port Skype uses on every American's computer across the country. Besides, did we mention it's ENCRYPTED from Skype to Skype? Mine says it's encrypted. Who am I talking to if you can't even tell it's a phone call, not a file transfer?? NSA also has more important things to worry about than being tax police bureaucrats. Well, not really a problem, as NSA's Mainframes look at ALL the IP traffic coming into or out of each SAT Transponder, and can, and do, archive all that data for later analysis, if needed. They don't really care what IP Port the traffic is using, as that doesn't really come into play, except on the receiving computer end, anyway. NSA's Cyrptic Section, regularly deals with much "Meaner" cyphers that what Skype uses in the datastream of their IP Phone drivers. They may not be doing "Realtime" Decrypting, but if they have need to, it is really easy, and very possible. Me Actually Skype is another "secret" program developed by the NSA to lull the terrorist into thinking that they can have a secure internet connection. It's encryped but with a NSA key. |
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"just me" wrote in
: can anyone provide me "step by step" info and how to subscribe to Skype and what equipment I would need to buy? Thanks, J When you get it running, J, call me on Skype. Search on my ham call w4csc to find me.... We'll test it out. |
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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! :-) -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com "Larry" wrote in message ... "just me" wrote in : Thanks, J A Skype friend of mine and I were fooling around trying out different combinations of calls, this afternoon..... My Skype In is set to forward all my calls to my cellular phone when Skype In calls my computer and the computer isn't available, as a matter of fact, I simply hibernated WinXP Pro on my laptop for the test without logging off my Skype client at all. Hibernation is great on the laptop, Skype and the Linksys CIT200 interface and all as it boots right back up and logs on perfectly...without having to reboot the whole computer. Werner, a Swiss friend of mine, called me on Skype-to-Skype with the computer hibernated and offline. Skype In worked perfectly, taking even the Skype-to-Skype call and forwarding the internet only call to my cellular phone forwarding number, immediately! Someone had their whole head screwed on when they coded this software and the server software for Skype. Way cool, internet VoIP to cellular interface for $38/YEAR! Amazing....(c; If my computer is offline, and I call my Skype In phone number from the cellular it forwards to, Alltel dumps the call into the cellular phone voicemail box, right on cue. If I don't answer the forwarded Skype call, either via VoIP or to my Skype In number, and I don't answer the cellphone, all the Skype In calls go to cellular voicemail for mobile retrieval, anyways. If the computer is online, but I have Skype's status set to Do Not Disturb or Unavailable or a mode like that, Skype dumps the calls to the cellular voicemail when I don't answer it either.... Setup this way, Skype friends can call me, from anywhere on the planet for free, even if I'm out mobile without the computer on wifi, now..... (c; On unlimited nights/weekends/holiday or after 9PM EDT on the cellphone, the call costs nothing!, even from Hong Kong! -- Press 1 for English Press 2 to disconnect until you learn English If I had to learn Farsi living in Iran, "they" have to learn English living in America. |
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"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in
news:gMxug.166$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; -- Welcome to America! Thank you for calling.... Please choose from the following menu: Press 1 for English Press 2 to disconnect until you learn English |
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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 |
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"Geoff Schultz" wrote 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. That is true but at 2 cents/minute to the US vs. a minimum of $1 it is always worth giving Skype the first try. :-) -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com |
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6: I would never give up my land based phone line (or cellular) and rely on Skype in the Caribbean. I was referring to him having a landline telephone in the USA. There's no reason to have one in the states any more. I've talked several overconnected friends out of their "Landline Ripoff and Spammer Connection" in the past year. Now connected to cable broadband, the don't need landlines at all with cellular in their pockets. It wasn't about Skype in Belize. DirecWay stinks, even in the USA. How awful...overloaded. |
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I would never give up my land based phone line (or cellular)
and rely on Skype in the Caribbean. I was referring to him having a landline telephone in the USA. There's no reason to have one in the states any more. I've talked several overconnected friends out of their "Landline Ripoff and Spammer Connection" in the past year. Now connected to cable broadband, the don't There's a very good reason to have a land line here in the USofA: reliability. I gave up my land line a year and a half ago and went with Vonage over my cable internet connection. Vonage is ok, but my cable internet connection is very flakey. This week it is embarrassing me. Cable internet is dropping out for a minute, two, several, 15 minutes at a time. One of my lines is a fax line and I'm in the midst of business dealings with faxes coming and going. People are having to resend at least half of the time. And when the connection is down they get a recording that my phone is not in service. Now I could set that fax line to fwd to voicemail when the connection is lost, but that doesn't get me the faxes I need. I could use an internet fax service, but then I still need to get out on the net and get the fax. Telling people to resend, and again, or to wait 15 minutes and try again, really sux. I had landline in this area - a major suburb or a major city - for 20 years and do not recall a single day I did not have TelCo service. I had DSL on that landline for 6 years and recall only 2 or 3 days when it went down, and then for short times. Now I loathe "the telephone company" but they were _there_. But my local cable tv & internet service... don't make me laugh. (Especially this week when I look like the dummy in the tv commercial that tried to save money on shipping instead of using FedEx.) I've already called to set up a new landline account. |
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@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com: Glamour marketing group This reminds me of the cellphone accessories I bought from Shanghai from a webpage many years ago. Verizon Wireless wanted nearly $100 for a drop-in charger with data interconnect from Motorola. The little Chinese company wanted $4.23 each with no minimum order. $50 leather carrying cases were $2.23. They even had an external car antenna to boost range. I ordered them, not knowing where they would ship from. They shipped direct from the little company in Shanghai! There were Chinese STAMPS on the parcel post package, hand packed. Shipping was as cheap as the items! The drop-in charger is sitting under my Motorola V60i and still works great for $4.23. I'm not sure where the carrying case is, at the moment. It was a quality product, too. Someone stole the car antenna. Simply amazing how they can manufacture technology so CHEAP! |
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