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Just wanted to gauge the forum's attitude to Skype and VOIP in general.
How many of you actually use it each day to make calls?
How many of you would consider using it?
Reason for asking? Well I've now got unlimited Skype calls to and from other Skype users :)
I thought skype was free pc to pc anyway :s
Unlimited skype calls to and from other skype users?
Isn't this the whole idea of skype? It being free to call any skype user voIP? Or do you mean you have unlimited calls to telephone numbers via skype?
But if you're a big talker then skype (voIP) is the way forward.
Used to spend ridiculous amounts of money calling my gf, then used skype instead, saved a killing. But now we got a great mobile tariff we no longer use skype.
Still it's all free, and a program to have installed so long as you know a few people using skype.
I'm planning to use it to keep in touch with my sister who is teaching in China currently (she has some net access....dunno bout skype though) either that or my family when im away from home
I use it when I'm away at uni, also have their free calls to landlines package, so I'm all sorted. Way I looked at it - £5 a week topping up the landline phone, or £2 a month on skype. Also got a skypein number too, though people don't normally ring me (or if they do, it's on my mobile).
My mobile has the skype plugin installed, but it's too slow to work really (that's on an o2 xda mini s, so dread to think of what it's like on a 'normal' phone).
I use it. $29.95 for unlimited calls to US numbers for a year is incredible value. Phonecalls are one thing which really aren't cheap in this country of very cheap stuff.
I use Skype for all of my regular calls, I don't have a landline as I don't use my phone enough for that. It's handy to keep track of payments etc.
Sorry chaps forgot to add the main point. I've got free Skype calls on my mobile :)
i do a lot of business on skype. wouldn't want to live without it.
friends use it for most of their business comms, across china / taiwan / HK / chile / argentina / europe
i use it daily not impressed with the handset i have though its to crackly, otherwise its a good program :)
I use it daily for pc to pc because of the full screen video capability, but never tried it for normal calls..I know that's useless info but still :p
I bought one of these from Scan - means I can use my regular handsfree phone for Skype/voip and also normal BT calls - works well.
I use it for chat at work because its the only IM that we can use through the firewall, used to use it at home a lot to chat to (now ex-) bf as it's cheap!
We also used it within uni network for C&C generals games!
I was given the BT equivilent with my homehub but have been underwhelmed by the quality of the calls and the handset.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=NW-093-NG
Best thing yet :)
VOIP is fine (if not for me), but i'm not sure i trust a proprietary system like Skype
For what reasons? I'm not picking, just curious to know.Quote:
Originally Posted by directhex
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Originally Posted by Kezzer
with a plain SIP system i can use any phone i want with an adapter, run a local server on anything capable of running user code (e.g. a linksys router running linux), and so on
with skype, i get the official skype client & i have to enjoy it
I would use it but no-one talks to me :(
;)
I use it now and again, if i can find someone to chat to :lol:
Agreed. The official skype client contains loads of tricky code to prevent it from being reverse engineered or debugged. For all we know it could be full of spyware or worse, we only have skype's word that there is nothing bad in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by directhex
The skype client is only available for a small number of platforms. If you want a client for a linux smartphone (or any linux basically other than 32bit x86), you are SOL. The official client is also quite bloaty.
The way skype routes it's packet causes problems. It uses firewall piecing methods to sneak where it is not supposed to be, and if you run skype on an firewalled box, it will route packets from other people through you. A friend of mine is sysadmin at an Oxford college. Every PC in the place has a worldwide routable static IP address with a 10Gb connection to the internet. Given the chance Skype would attempt to route half the UK's phone calls through one of those PCs, and suck up all the available bandwith, Because of this skype is banned, from student PCs, even though it would be a great help for the foreign students.
The fact that skype is now owned by eBay/paypal does not help as IMHO, they are one of the most money grabbing and venal companies on the internet.
I blame George Orwell for your insecurities ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by chrestomanci
And there's probably conditions in the EULA.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/network/voip/skype.xmlQuote:
Originally Posted by chrestomanci
Yeah I use it alot, mainly for calling my friends who have Skype in various countries, also have/and do use it for calls to landlines but not so often.. as said the rates are great!
In general VOIP is a great idea and currently as people know is really taking off, it could be rather beneficial to companies who rely on telecommunications on a day to day basis as a cost effective alternative.. Skype is great.. haven't tried another as have felt no real need to.
Used it a lot to keep in touch with my parents when they went to Canada for a month last summer. €10 worth of credit seemed to last ages, in fact I've still got 10p left (although when I converted it to £'s half way through the month it did seem to go a lot quicker).
Overall I quite liked it (although I did seem to get random chinese people asking to be added to my address book for some reason).
I tend to use MSN as my main IM client
lol, i get like 2 people a day from china asking for my details "Hi im travelling to the UK and want to know about the culture and better learn my english" lol. Declined...... But yeh ive been using skype to talk to my gf in north carolina and using windows live for the webcam. Works great. Plus put a tenner on ages ago, and jsut lasts me.
Shares might be tempting to get involved with as i recon this will take off, especially with the whole 3 deal they have got now,.
I use Skype for business...but not that much.
Skype rocks.
Used it for 2 years now, use it most nights for gaming in LIneage2, and use it for typing chat too.
And file transfers.
Love it.
Does anyone know of a decent Ethernet -> Phone adaptor that works with Skype?
I've got Skype on my smartphone, which is awesome when randomly jumping on public WiFi services :>
CPU usage is insane for gaming thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by Zak33
can you use it to call mobiles or land lines?