On the phone side of things, routers exist that include not only a
built-in ATA, but also built-in DECT base-station.
Any ATA can be plumbed into your legacy phone wiring provided your
phone wiring is disconnected from your Telco. This way your jacks
around the house still have dial-tone, but
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com wrote:
On 20 July 2010 08:50, C. Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
No no no! Skype is evil and nasty and CLOSED.
Apart from the fact that it is proprietary software, what is evil and
nasty about it?
...
to
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:08 PM, John Carter john.car...@taitradio.com wrote:
So my home life is getting sufficient twangled that having some more advance
facilities (voicemail / caller id / ...) would be good.
I was looking at Xnet VFX Fusion. But that means I'd have to replace my
router to
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:08:38 +1200
John Carter john.car...@taitradio.com wrote:
So my home life is getting sufficient twangled that having some more
advance facilities (voicemail / caller id / ...) would be good.
I was looking at Xnet VFX Fusion. But that means I'd have to replace
my
* Something with cheap calls to South Africa / US / UK (diasporas tend to do
that to you)
http://www.skype.com/
Traffic costs only for computer to computer worldwide. Piffling for
voice, and the quality far exceeds that of the POTS system. I have
used it for far too many hours to be able to
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 23:21 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Traffic costs only for computer to computer worldwide. Piffling for
voice, and the quality far exceeds that of the POTS system. I have
used it for far too many hours to be able to say how many. It works a
treat. Linux version
Christopher Sawtell wrote, On 07/19/2010 11:21 PM:
* Something with cheap calls to South Africa / US / UK (diasporas tend to do
that to you)
http://www.skype.com/
Traffic costs only for computer to computer worldwide. Piffling for
voice, and the quality far exceeds that of the POTS system.
John Carter wrote, On 07/19/2010 09:08 PM:
So what I need is...
* A cordless voip phone or a way of tacking a standard cordless to,
umm, something.
* Access to a cheap gateway from the IP to Christchurch local
telephone system
* Something with cheap calls to South Africa / US / UK
On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 10:38 +1200, C. Falconer wrote:
http://www.2talk.co.nz/
South Africa - 10c/minute
South African Mobile - 25c/minute (same as NZ mobiles)
UK 3c/minute
UK Mobile - 25c/minute (same as NZ mobiles)
USA 5c/minute
USA Mobile - not listed.
I use asterisk, and
On 20 July 2010 08:50, C. Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote, On 07/19/2010 11:21 PM:
* Something with cheap calls to South Africa / US / UK (diasporas tend
to do that to you)
http://www.skype.com/
Traffic costs only for computer to computer worldwide.
On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 15:14 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On 20 July 2010 08:50, C. Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
No no no! Skype is evil and nasty and CLOSED.
Apart from the fact that it is proprietary software, what is evil and
nasty about it?
Like the fact that it
On 20 July 2010 15:51, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 15:14 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On 20 July 2010 08:50, C. Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
No no no! Skype is evil and nasty and CLOSED.
Apart from the fact that it is proprietary
Christopher Sawtell wrote, On 07/20/2010 04:15 PM:
Remember that the replacement should be free of $$$ cost and
installation be available on Linux, Windows, and Mac O/S X. It _must_
be as simple to install as falling off the proverbial log, so Dear Old
Aunt Tilly can make it go.
Honest, I'm all
On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 16:15 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Or the fact that it will abuse your firewall until it can find a way around
it?
Isn't the fact that it attempts to find a way around firewalls a benefit?
Remember that we want ordinary folks to be able to use it in as many
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