RunningAHEAD - Topic: Tell me about Skype...

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 1/24/2008 at 11:19 AM

Do you use it? How do you like it? What sort of phone devices do you use with it? Were you able to keep your home phone #? We're thinking about switching our home phone over to Skype, rather than pay through the nose to Verizon when I use my cell phone for 90% of long-distance calls. I'd love to hear what users think of the service. k

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~ Sarah Kay

freckles

posted: 1/24/2008 at 11:34 AM

I use it to call CAnada, Japan and Argentina from Scotland. I use a head set. I like it cos its cheap and the quality is generally good. I don't like it cos I only switch the computer on when I am using it so I miss a lot of calls on it.

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rvelich

Another Passion

posted: 1/24/2008 at 11:40 AM

I thought skype were those imaginary animals the adults would send you out into the woods at night to hunt on camping trips? Confused

Rick
"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." - Juma Ikangaa
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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 1/24/2008 at 11:46 AM

Quote from rvelich on 1/24/2008 at 11:40 AM:

I thought skype were those imaginary animals the adults would send you out into the woods at night to hunt on camping trips?

Ha, I've never heard that one... Big grin

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 1/24/2008 at 11:48 AM

Quote from freckles on 1/24/2008 at 11:34 AM:

I use it to call CAnada, Japan and Argentina from Scotland. I use a head set. I like it cos its cheap and the quality is generally good. I don't like it cos I only switch the computer on when I am using it so I miss a lot of calls on it.

Ahhh...so if you have more than one log-in on a computer will it only work with one? I didn't even think about that issue, but it makes sense. Most of the time we leave the computer on, so that would pretty much require it. I'd been thinking about a headset, too. backroadrunner and I often will both read on RA and talk to each other on the phone while we do so--sure would be easier if I didn't have to cradle the phone with my shoulder and face...I get neck cramps that way! Tongue

k

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

perfesserr

Imminent Catastrophe

posted: 1/24/2008 at 11:49 AM

You can use SkypeOut to call a regular phone anywhere in the world from your computer, it runs a little over 2 cents per minute and the other party doesn't need a computer. Call quality is usually good but sometimes you get an echo.

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Peke98

posted: 1/24/2008 at 11:50 AM

Quote from rvelich on 1/24/2008 at 11:40 AM:

I thought skype were those imaginary animals the adults would send you out into the woods at night to hunt on camping trips?

Was that before or after they had you go ask all the other campsites to borrow their left-handed smoke shifters?

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 1/24/2008 at 11:53 AM

Quote from perfesserr on 1/24/2008 at 11:49 AM:

You can use SkypeOut to call a regular phone anywhere in the world from your computer, it runs a little over 2 cents per minute and the other party doesn't need a computer. Call quality is usually good but sometimes you get an echo.

I get that echo sometimes with my cell phone, so I think I could deal with that. Hmmm...this Skype thing is sounding better and better all the time.

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

JillyBeans

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posted: 1/24/2008 at 12:23 PM

Quote from rvelich on 1/24/2008 at 11:40 AM:

I thought skype were those imaginary animals the adults would send you out into the woods at night to hunt on camping trips?

That is Snipe Hunting. Smile

Uh, yeah. Not that I would know about it or anything. Undecided

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rvelich

Another Passion

posted: 1/24/2008 at 1:47 PM

Quote from Peke98 on 1/24/2008 at 11:50 AM:

Was that before or after they had you go ask all the other campsites to borrow their left-handed smoke shifters?

Usually after... was it supposed to have been before? Confused

Rick
"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." - Juma Ikangaa
"I wanna go fast." Ricky Bobby
runningforcassy.blogspot.com

rvelich

Another Passion

posted: 1/24/2008 at 1:49 PM
modified: 1/24/2008 at 1:50 PM

Quote from JillyBeans on 1/24/2008 at 12:23 PM:

That is Snipe Hunting. Uh, yeah. Not that I would know about it or anything.

These are the same adults that let me ride my bike down the sidewalk path next to a tobaggon run at Pokagon State Park in Indiana after an ice storm. Shocked

Modified to add: WITH NO HELMET! GASP!

Rick
"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." - Juma Ikangaa
"I wanna go fast." Ricky Bobby
runningforcassy.blogspot.com

modal

posted: 1/24/2008 at 2:20 PM
modified: 1/24/2008 at 2:20 PM

If the person has high speed internet, you might want to consider using computers on both ends. I think skype to skype calls are free. I have a skype account but never really used it. modal (who had his first COMPUTER to COMPUTER VOIP experience in 1997 to Argentina... on macs runing.... dang OS 7... man I'm getting old)

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 1/24/2008 at 2:22 PM

Quote from modal on 1/24/2008 at 2:20 PM:

If the person has high speed internet, you might want to consider using computers on both ends.

We'd mainly use it as a way to keep our home phone #, if that is possible. My siblings, mom, MIL and I all have Verizon cells, so we talk for free to one-another that way. Most of my home phone calls are too and from Eryn or other general purpose calls. That's about it. k

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

Timbodeener

posted: 1/24/2008 at 5:00 PM

Not real sure about skype but most VoIP technologies can work with something called and ATA adapter (analog telephone adapter) and your regular home phone can plug into the ATA and the ATA into your internet router....no pc necessary. This is how providers like Vonage work....

Ed4

Barefoot and happy

posted: 1/24/2008 at 10:47 PM

It sounds like you don't really need a land line at all.

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