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New Marine WiFi Product
"Bill Kearney" wrote in
t: You say this based on what experience and measurement from an actual marine environment? p2p traffic is not without it's waste of bandwidth. For someone in a limited bandwidth situation it may well be a BIG problem to go "sharing" it for p2p apps like skype. The only time VoIP is going to function is over a satellite phone or on wifi at the dock. I don't know anyone rich enough to use a satellite phone for any kind of broadband, so we're talking about wifi from the dock condo at the, as the little old lady in Beaufort, SC, put it, "floating trailer park". There, it's no different than it is at home. Cellphone is cheaper than any VoIP cruising down the ICW and rivers or close, real close, offshore. "Out there", we're back in $1.50/min satellite country. In the "actual marine environment", as you say, no VoIP service is going to save anyone any money. I measure the traffic Skype uses to route calls to other users through my system at around 200 bytes/second, on average. As Skype doesn't work on dialup connections, but does, at least until Verizon Wireless catches them, work well on a laptop aircard on 1X lowfi internet. This traffic it consumes is imperceptable, even on the aircard. I've seen 8 Skype connections through my laptop on wifi with no ill effects at all. It's a tiny price to pay for great telephone service that has no monthly load fees at all! Which VoIP service in the "actual marine environment" is its price competitor? Those who can afford satellite phones are not interested in price. Small boaters living aboard at the dock of a wifi-enabled marina would be crazy to use anything else, ask Skip. Skype's new partner, Voxlib (www.voxlib.com), in Canada, has REVERSED a deficiency of Skype for anyone who wants it, for free at the moment. Voxlib allows you to call your Skype contacts from a remote location, from your cellphone or any telephone on the planet with your incredibly- expensive $28/year SkypeIn phone number. Voxlib-to-Skype calls are all free. Voxlib-to-landline/mobiles are dirt cheap at Skype Out rates, free until January for US/Canadian users. How they make any profit is a mystery to me, but you'll get no complaints from Skype customers...(c; If you have a cellular service that doesn't charge for INCOMING calls, such as Nextel for instance, Voxlib calls are even free to the cellphone when you control Voxlib through its SMS message functions. Voxlib gets the message, makes the interconnect to your party, then calls your cellphone, a free incoming call, and connects the two of you in conference. After January, that will be 2.1c/minute to most civilized places where the local telephone bureaucrats don't make the caller pay for the call. This is a pretty cheap boat phone if you have wifi. It's even worth installing cable internet to your own wifi hotspot in a box on the dock near your boat if the marina doesn't provide it at a reasonable rate. A group of nearby boats can share the cost of this resource and everyone on the dock can have Skype phone service aboard. WEP protect the hotspot to encourage others to join and help fund it. -- There's amazing intelligence in the Universe. You can tell because none of them ever called Earth. |
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