ok i have paid my 10 euro and tried a couple of calls. a bit hampered here by lack of a mic on the office pc, but i used the skype gui to call my office number and connected fine, talking into the phone produced sound on the loudspeakers. reasonable clear, but I do have a full speed jetstream connection.
i tried to call my cellphone and it rang after a much longer delay than the landline. however after i answered it skype or the cellphone hung up and skype advised "service unavilable, try again" however i was charged for the call, presumably the minimum. costs so far: 2 one second calls to the cell phone @ E 0.252 2 calls under one minute to the landline @ E 0.017 Now local calls in NZ cost about 3 c a minute and cells about 70 c a minute, although maybe that has recently gone down to about 45/50c according to asb .25 euro is about .45 NZ and .017 euro is pretty much exactly .03 NZ, so it does seem I was charged local calling prces, although i am not sure who to complain to (if i wanted to) about the two cell phone calls that didn't _actually_ connect. On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 16:55:09 +1200 Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Fisher wrote: > > Anyone on the list tried Skype for Linux? > > > > http://www.skype.com/ > > > > If so, what do you think of it? > > I've just installed it on OSX, as the beta came out a couple of days ago. > > It does work, although a colleague of mine (female) has started to feel > a little threatened by the account listing :- > > > Even though listed as offline I have been getting two or three calls a night (but > > not answering them) from strange men with South American names. > > I've made successful calls to PSTN phones in the UK - audible lag of > about a second, but it's interesting how quickly the conversation paces > itself to that. Haven't managed a p2p connection yet, the far end (my > mum) isn't very technical :-) > > Another colleague was concerned about the amount of state/poll traffic > going to their servers - if you left the client available all the time, > he felt that you would be spending a far amount of bandwidth doing nothing. > > I haven't investigated the network usage in detail yet, but will do soon. > > -jim -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
