Hi Sven! Try:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSTN Regards, Torsten Sven Zirkmann schrieb: > Your in for a big surprise! /: P > One place where analogue dial-up is used is > in the United States of America! At least in > those out of the places where the telephone company > is waaay too bloody lazy to put down (at the least) DSL > cable. > > I live in Hawai'i, in an out of the way place, with only Dial-Up > for internet. Wireless would be an option, if wasn't so expensive > to set up. > > Netwaiting is a windows program for Dial-Up that notifies me about > incoming calls and allows me to take the call. > > Btw, what does PSTN stand for? And what exactly is VoIP? > Sorry, I'm fairly new to all this. > > Sven > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Torsten Schlabach <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi Sven! > > It's possible to hook up a PSTN phone number with a VoIP account, then > connect to that VoIP account using Ekiga. When it comes to details: > > 1. I think this might be OT for this list; I can recommend a general > VoIP forum > 2. For some hints, it would be helpful to know in which country that > PSTN phone number would be. > > > Netwaiting for WIndows? > > What's that? > > Just wondering? In what part of the world would anyone use analogue > dial-up to connect to the Internet? > > Regards, > Torsten > > > Sven Zirkmann schrieb: > > I was wondering if Ekiga can work like Netwaiting for WIndows? > > Whether or not it can take incoming calls from someone calling on > > a regular phone? Or at least notify me that someone is calling, so > > that I can disconnect from the internet and take the call (since I'm > > on Dial-Up)? > > > > Sven > > > > -- > > "A penny saved is a penny earned." > > > > ....yeah right. > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ekiga-list mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list > _______________________________________________ > ekiga-list mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list > > > > > -- > "A penny saved is a penny earned." > > ....yeah right. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ekiga-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
