Thank Nicholas, James, Malcolm and Michael for you positve comments
on iinetphone.
One of my sons is trying to convert me to broadband and is using
Michael's situation of saving on phone bills as bait.
I think I will probably take it - hook line and sinker.
Merv
At 8:01 PM +1100 15/1/06, Nicholas Pyers wrote:
On 15/01/2006, at 5:14 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:
I understand that in its broadband plans iinet offer phonenet.
Phonenet can be operated through the computer or with a separate
handset that connect to an external router/modem.
Has any one tried this system with their Mac? Is it successful?
What OS are you using?
Thanks
Merv
The service offered by iiNet is called "iinetphone" and is a Voice
Over IP service (also known as VOIP)
It works extremely well. I have used from Melbourne to call people
in Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney and Sale.
I used x-net's softphone software, X-Lite, under Mac OS X 10.4 on a
1.6GhZ G5 tower extremely well and it improved even more when I
configured the software to "include silence" (prior to this people
thought I'd dropped out when I wasn't speaking) and also go a set of
head phones
I know of plenty of people who have used the ATA adaptor or the new
VOIP-enabled routers to plug a regular telephone handset into the
system and most found it fine - there was a problem with a batch of
faulty routers, but I believe this has been fixed and iiNet just
replaced the the faulty ones.
There are other VOIP services out there that you can also
investigate, but if you are already with iiNet the fact they throw
it in for free with some of their plans is great news.
I recently gave a presentation on VOIP and the slides and links can
be found at http://www.nicholaspyers.com/presentations/
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