On 3/30/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks, everyone. I'm going to give Skype the 5-minute test drive this weekend, and if it's that good, but me a year. Even a CB can afford $30.
You don't need to buy anything for PC-to-PC calls (assuming you can get the other party to use a computer headset). $30 a year for unlimited PC-to-Phone calls is a great deal, though. If you only need it for this one event, you might consider buying $10 of credits. Then, PC-to-Phone calls debit at a rate of 2.1 cents a minute. Skype is a great value, but it may not stay that way if Verizon successfully sues them for patent infringement, like they recently did with Vonage[1]. There are a few other things to dislike as well. They are not open source, they use a proprietary protocol, and they use peer to peer routing which can leech your bandwidth (though traffic is encrypted to help with privacy). -- Rick [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vonage#Verizon_lawsuit -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
