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"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in
: You can get a regular phone number for a small monthly fee (no long term contract) so POTS phones can call you. The caller pays what ever his normal rate is to your home area code and Skype forwards it to where ever your PC happens to be. You can also set up a calling order so that if your PC doesn't answer it will call your land line. If that doesn't answer it will call your cell phone and finally send it to your voice mail. Skype In, with your own phone number, is $US28/YEAR...a princely sum most can't afford. Your Skype In number doesn't HAVE to be where you live, either! One of my neighbors is a master sgt in the USAF at Charleston AFB across the street. HIS Skype In number is in Cleveland, OH, back home where all his calls come from. When his friends want to call him, they just dial his Skype In phone number...in Cleveland, a local call. That way, his parents don't ever have to play the musical long distance chairs scam the phone companies run. He'll keep his Cleveland Skype In phone number, even when he is transferred to Okinawa or wherever because Skype plugs into the internet and doesn't really care where he is....his Skype In calls will come in wherever the system finds his Skype (or more than one Skype) running under his username. If he's on Guam, Mom will call his local Cleveland number and his Skype on guam.net will ring just like it does in Charleston. Vonage sucks. They're in such trouble that Circuit City has a Vonage interconnect device that they are selling for $50...WITH A $100 REBATE! I think you have to enslave yourself to Vonage for a couple of years to get the rebate or we would have been rippin' off CC for $50 by the carload...(c; BTW, your computer will run 24/7/365 for about 30 years between failures....at full power. The servers do all the time. Mine hasn't been shut down in years! I wear out the keyboard, first. A priest also told me it was NOT a serious sin to leave it running, even downloading.... -- -- (shameless tagline) -- If you're sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in? |
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Larry wrote:
snip.. BTW, your computer will run 24/7/365 for about 30 years between failures....at full power. The servers do all the time. Mine hasn't been shut down in years! I wear out the keyboard, first. A priest also told me it was NOT a serious sin to leave it running, even downloading.... Don't you blasheme! |
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Don White wrote in
: Larry wrote: snip.. BTW, your computer will run 24/7/365 for about 30 years between failures....at full power. The servers do all the time. Mine hasn't been shut down in years! I wear out the keyboard, first. A priest also told me it was NOT a serious sin to leave it running, even downloading.... Don't you blasheme! "Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It has been 22 years since my last confession and these are my sins." (Lay Z-fold tractor paper list up on the little shelf where the priest can see it and start reading the list.) "I left my computer on running Skype all year." "I left my wifi hotspot open 24/7 so anyone can use my bandwidth for free, hoping they will leave theirs open so I can use theirs when I'm by their house for free." "I slept with 2,847 horny teenage girls I wasn't married to and had a great time." (At this point, ignore the cries of anguish from behind the screen and go on reading....)......(c; (Let him get his own teenagers.) -- -- (shameless tagline) -- If you're sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in? |
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On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:15:04 -0400, Larry wrote:
Skype In, with your own phone number, is $US28/YEAR...a princely sum most can't afford. Your Skype In number doesn't HAVE to be where you live, either! Larry, if you wouldn't mind, can you tell us again about your Skype telephone device? |
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Vonage sucks. They're in such trouble that Circuit City has a Vonage
interconnect device that they are selling for $50...WITH A $100 REBATE! I think you have to enslave yourself to Vonage for a couple of years to get the rebate or we would have been rippin' off CC for $50 by the carload...(c; Vonage is GREAT. I replaced my two telco lines with same via Vonage - kept my numbers I've had for years and which are in a dozen work industry directories and a zillion business cards passed out over the years. I plug my fax machine and any other telephone equipment right in. No need to have a pc or laptop running. I can access voicemail by phone, by web, or even have it emailed to me. I can have different outgoing messages for different times. If I'm on the run I can set the lines to fwd to another number, or even "hunt" me one by one. Or ring several numbers at once. All for a shade over $30 a month, TOTAL, every conceivable option included. I couldn't even get one line with no features on a regular Telco for that. And nobody needs to buy any hardware or deal with any rebates as Vonage supplies the router/adapter for free. Always has. Vonage is GREAT! |
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