Re: [ql-users] Skype

2004-10-27 Thread Darren . Branagh
1) It works 2) It is peer to peer and requires no central server 3) Has a testing number 4) On ADSL it is -easily- full duplex. On dial up it almost is, with some breakup. Single duplex is perfect on dial-up. Yep. I agree. I only have dial-up over here, about 42-48K at best. I had a lengthy

[ql-users] NB: Change of email address

2004-10-27 Thread Darren . Branagh
Hi All, From 5/11/04 I will no longer be contactable at this email address. I have changed jobs (and moved to the other side of the country!!) and my new email address will (for the meantime anyway) change to :- darrenbranagh AT o2 DOT ie This is my personal email, and therefore I ask that

[ql-users] A3 Laser Printer Wanted

2004-10-27 Thread RWAPSoftware
Does anyone have an A3 laser pritner for sale?? Customer is also looking for a Packard Bell Legend type PC - though guess the laser is easier to find!! -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ TEL: 01922 691607 Visit our website at

[ql-users] QL Show on Skype?

2004-10-27 Thread Darren . Branagh
I dunno if a QL show via Skype is doable, but it certainly makes sense. Its cheap, and a great way for all the QL users worldwide to have an instant chat forum. Of course, it needs some planning - a suitable time to hold it for one. This would need to take into account the users from abroad who

Re: [ql-users] Skype

2004-10-27 Thread Tony Firshman
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 at 19:23:25, David Tubbs wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) At 06:47 20/10/2004 +0100, you wrote: 1) It works 2) It is peer to peer and requires no central server 3) Has a testing number 4) On ADSL it is -easily- full duplex. On dial up it almost is, with some breakup. Single

Re: [ql-users] Skype

2004-10-27 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 at 09:59:39, wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) The facility to call overseas at local (over there) rates was even offered with 28k modems, even a special call to wake computer job. Yes, I used to use Paltalk and visitalk on a 28K modem years ago, but it was err... crap. Yep

Re: [ql-users] Skype

2004-10-27 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: Well of course Skype has to be installed both ends, but nothing unusual otherwise for ADSL. One can call landline phones, but not for free. Uniquely it is peer to peer, so one does not need a central (probably spy) server. Actually no, it's usually not. For it being

Re: [ql-users] Skype

2004-10-27 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: It does not have a centralised server, but uses non-firewalled clients and clients on publically routable IP addresses to help NAT'ed nodes to communicate by routing calls Gobbledegook to me of source! Of which source? ;-) This means that a non-firewalled Skype user can

Re: [ql-users] Skype

2004-10-27 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Mike MacNamara wrote: The only pauses we get are when there are large downloads at same time, other than that it is better than landlines. Now I really do start wondering how bad the landlines in the UK are! Germany has had a fully digitalized net for about a decade, never had a connection that

Re: [ql-users] Skype

2004-10-27 Thread Mike MacNamara
Well we use BTs 1 meg ADSL, which is not brilliant, but does the job. Skype which we have used since first available is first class, I talk to people in every corner of the globe with perfect clarity, only time I have noticed pauses is when using conference global calls, and downloading/uploading

Re: [ql-users] Skype

2004-10-27 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 at 16:06:31, Marcel Kilgus wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Tony Firshman wrote: It does not have a centralised server, but uses non-firewalled clients and clients on publically routable IP addresses to help NAT'ed nodes to communicate by routing calls Gobbledegook to me

Re: [ql-users] Skype

2004-10-27 Thread David Tubbs
At 13:38 27/10/2004 +0100, you wrote: Far better though is what I have (almost) set up. This is a dedicated Cisco VOIP phone. Worldnews is setting up a central server. This will allow me to use it as a phone to call and receive anywhere without installing software. All it needs is a network

Re: [ql-users] Skype

2004-10-27 Thread David Tubbs
At 14:19 27/10/2004 +0100, you wrote: Gobbledegook to me of source! is sauce for the gander ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm

Re: [ql-users] Skype

2004-10-27 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 at 19:06:05, David Tubbs wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) At 13:38 27/10/2004 +0100, you wrote: Far better though is what I have (almost) set up. This is a dedicated Cisco VOIP phone. Worldnews is setting up a central server. This will allow me to use it as a phone to call

Re: [ql-users] Printers

2004-10-27 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 at 20:45:02, David Tubbs wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) At 17:04 23/10/2004 +0100, you wrote: -- 20 years ago I paid £160 for a dot-matrix printer, last year £35 for a colour jet. It is eminently good sense to minimise the hardware and do the tricky stuff in software for

Re: [ql-users] Printers

2004-10-27 Thread David Tubbs
At 21:08 27/10/2004 +0100, you wrote: I paid £950 in 1986 for a top of the range wide carriage 24 pin dot matrix (Brother 2024) Ridiculous price of course, but it had the diablo codes I had coded in Archive. My little number was a Brother too. It was, though, a very good buy as it is still working