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Jumping on the VOIP bandwagon?
On Dec 8, 10:36 am, HK wrote:
wrote: On Dec 7, 9:28 pm, John H. wrote: Here's a site that allows some comparison of different plans and provides some brief reviews of same. I had SunRocket, which went under. My neighbor transferred to VOIP.com and is very happy with it. I can't tell he is using VOIP when he calls. FWIWhttp://www.comparevoipservice.org/ I'm happy with Cox digital, at about half the cost of Verizon, but may go back to VOIP in a couple months. Will wait to see what my neighbor thinks in a month or two. -- John H John, Harry says that even though I've had both hardwire and VOIP that I'm not able to state for a fact that my VOIP connection is clearer than my hardwired one ever was. He's never had VOIP, but somehow he IS able to state without a doubt that hardwired copper with old connections, 1930's technology is better. You should discuss this with him, apparently he's the expert. Y-A-W-N.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Tell us again how great the sound is from copper wired connections as opposed to digital. My fiber optics cable never ever goes out, any decent ice storm and the phones are out for days at a time. |
Jumping on the VOIP bandwagon?
John H. wrote in
: My friend in Holland is wanting my to try Skype. I've not done so yet, because with the digital from Cox, calling Holland is very cheap. It was much cheaper with VOIP. I know nothing about it. -- John H Just download free and install. You can call your friend's Skype for FREE....about as cheap as you can get....ZERO...NADA...FREE. Talk as long as you like. You are connected DIRECTLY to him, not through a money machine server of some VOIP company. That's why it's free....as it should be. You may also, even while talking to him, see each other on your webcams, swap any files directly, use the chat window to share URLs and other not-so-easy-to-convey-in-voice things like URLs....again, all free as you are connected directly to him. Who pays for all this, you might ask. YOU DO! If you open a port sniffer like TCPView, you'll see other Skypers connected to you, just like you'll see you connected to others using their system to relay your Dutch friend's data to you. This is NOT how the phone call is routed...this is how your contact list, which is stored on Skype's server, eliminating you entering it in every Skype device, is stored. When you open any Skype device, your contact list comes down from the other Skyper's supernode Skype connects to, to you. A distributed system, not some VoIP company depending on servers in one or a few places, Skype self-heals when the guy you're connected to shuts down his computer or his Skype. It uses almost no bandwidth and costs you nothing in speed or time. It's just a few control codes and encrypted text. The other guy cannot see your contact list, even with his packet sniffer. Skype is encoded with 256-bit encryption and would take a supercomputer a LONG time to decrypt, making it quite secure....more secure than your government-controlled VoIP company like Vonage, etc. Skype is in Luxembourgh, even though it is run by Englishmen. Luxembourgh imposes no taxes on it....unlike the UK taxed to death. You pay no taxes to anyone to use Skype, even the bureaucrats in the USA or Canada. The distributed system would be a helluva nightmare to trace through the millions of Skype users online, 8,674,812 at 1:05PM on Saturday as I type this. Skype tells you how many are online at the bottom to choose from. Call any of them you can find. They don't normally bite and can be very friendly. To find out, just go from ONLINE to SKYPE ME status and the whole Skype world can find you. Great fun if you're bored.....(c; You have nothing to lose....just do it! Larry -- Isn't it ironic that the same ISPs that are telling you you're downloads threaten their networks...... .....are testing 100Gbps TV to sell on the SAME systems? http://tinyurl.com/27qx3v |
Jumping on the VOIP bandwagon?
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:44:04 -0500, wrote:
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:28:22 -0500, John H. wrote: Here's a site that allows some comparison of different plans and provides some brief reviews of same. I had SunRocket, which went under. My neighbor transferred to VOIP.com and is very happy with it. I can't tell he is using VOIP when he calls. FWIW http://www.comparevoipservice.org/ I'm happy with Cox digital, at about half the cost of Verizon, but may go back to VOIP in a couple months. Will wait to see what my neighbor thinks in a month or two. The broadband carriers, particularly cable will have to show me a lot more reliability before I cut my "always works" phone line. After any decent storm, named or not, my cable is always out a few days and "data" was out for over a week. In 25 years I have never lost my phone. I've had very good luck with Cox here in Alexandria, VA. After the first year's growing pains, the service has been very free of outages of any kind. In the 12 years we've been in this house, we've never lost electricity for more than a few hours either. So, we've been quite lucky. -- John H |
Jumping on the VOIP bandwagon?
On Dec 8, 12:50 pm, HK wrote:
wrote: On Dec 8, 10:36 am, HK wrote: wrote: On Dec 7, 9:28 pm, John H. wrote: Here's a site that allows some comparison of different plans and provides some brief reviews of same. I had SunRocket, which went under. My neighbor transferred to VOIP.com and is very happy with it. I can't tell he is using VOIP when he calls. FWIWhttp://www.comparevoipservice.org/ I'm happy with Cox digital, at about half the cost of Verizon, but may go back to VOIP in a couple months. Will wait to see what my neighbor thinks in a month or two. -- John H John, Harry says that even though I've had both hardwire and VOIP that I'm not able to state for a fact that my VOIP connection is clearer than my hardwired one ever was. He's never had VOIP, but somehow he IS able to state without a doubt that hardwired copper with old connections, 1930's technology is better. You should discuss this with him, apparently he's the expert. Y-A-W-N.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Tell us again how great the sound is from copper wired connections as opposed to digital. My fiber optics cable never ever goes out, any decent ice storm and the phones are out for days at a time. I told you once before I have no interest in engaging in one of your silly, never-ending, mindless discussions. Find other playmates.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - As suspected....... Harry, why do you consistently start with the mean spirited, petty insults when someone engages you in a conversation that you really don't know about? You and Tom are alot alike, if you don't have it, or don't want it, then you can find nothing good in it. |
Jumping on the VOIP bandwagon?
What is your skype name?
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Jumping on the VOIP bandwagon?
Jim wrote:
What is your skype name? Skippy. Or is it JIF? |
Jumping on the VOIP bandwagon?
"HK" wrote in message . .. Jim wrote: What is your skype name? Skippy. Or is it JIF? Peter Pan |
Jumping on the VOIP bandwagon?
"Jim" wrote in news:01a63171$0$11583$c3e8da3
@news.astraweb.com: What is your skype name? Is that your email addy? I'd email it, but posting it here to be scrammed 24/7 with hate calls would be stupid. Larry -- Isn't it ironic that the same ISPs that are telling you you're downloads threaten their networks...... .....are testing 100Gbps TV to sell on the SAME systems? http://tinyurl.com/27qx3v |
Jumping on the VOIP bandwagon?
Larry wrote:
"Jim" wrote in news:01a63171$0$11583$c3e8da3 @news.astraweb.com: What is your skype name? Is that your email addy? I'd email it, but posting it here to be scrammed 24/7 with hate calls would be stupid. Larry Come on, Larry, admit it...you get calls in your head whether you are near a phone or not! Merry Christmas, by the way. |
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