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Free international phone calls

unkel · 2004-01-17 02:22:51

Had been using the internet for making phone calls from about 6 years ago. The quality was always very poor. Now there is a service with a difference From the creators of KaZaA in Estonia Without any spyware or adware Completely free Not affected by firewalls It works as long as you have broadband Tested it tonight for…

17-01-2004 3:22am

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unkel

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Had been using the internet for making phone calls from about 6 years ago. The quality was always very poor. Now there is a service with a difference

From the creators of KaZaA in Estonia
Without any spyware or adware
Completely free
Not affected by firewalls
It works as long as you have broadband

Tested it tonight for about 2 hours - abfab

Here it is

The two fingers to eircom :ninja:

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#2 17-01-2004 10:45am

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Not quite "phone" calls, since you can't call a landline/mobile phone using skype, you can just talk to other users already connected to the internet.

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#3 17-01-2004 3:45pm

unkel

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Indeed. They plan to do pc2phone in a few months time. Have not seen any details yet

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#4 17-01-2004 6:54pm

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u can do this is yahoo msgr and use a webcam

whats the big deal?

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#5 17-01-2004 9:43pm

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well if u look into this getoffthepot it is kinda innovative
it allows u to do pc2pc calls on a noisey fone line which only expensive
software let u do b4
they are even talkin about gettin it to work on 56k connections soon
that would be something

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#6 17-01-2004 9:44pm

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u can do this is yahoo msgr and use a webcam

... or MSN Messenger, or ICQ with the correct plugins.. or teamspeak ... and I'm sure there are more

The Skype service where you call a landline won't be free, and www.net2phone.com already does this.
Here's the current pricelist for net2phone (from ireland).

Us $ 0.050
United Kingdom $ 0.049
Buenos Aires $ 0.079
Sydney $ 0.039
Canada $ 0.049
France $ 0.049
India $ 0.470
Tel Aviv $ 0.079
Italy $ 0.059
Korea South $ 0.079
Malaysia $ 0.090
Philippines $ 0.190
Portugal $ 0.100
Saudi Arabia $ 0.450
Spain $ 0.059
Ukraine $ 0.220

There's nothing new here, skype just got some media attention because one of the developers is one of the original KaZaA developers.

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#7 18-01-2004 4:40am

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Was with net2phone m8, but this is free and better quality then a phone call

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#8 18-01-2004 4:58am

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Originally posted by unkel

It works as long as you have broadband

Tested it tonight for about 2 hours - abfab

Here it is

The two fingers to eircom :ninja:

It says on thier site that anything from 36.6K dialup upwards will do..

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#9 18-01-2004 7:42am

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PC only, bah. But I was trying out iChat video to Japan, and it's fine - iChat is a Mac thing, but I *think* it's interoperable with AOL Messenger, though I'm not certain.

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#10 18-01-2004 5:42pm

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i use go2call.co.uk
or go2call.com
You can sign up on either i think.
Very very cheap to landlines all over the world.
Theres about a tenth of a second delay but you dont notice after a minute or so.

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#11 18-01-2004 6:39pm

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Originally posted by aclane
It says on thier site that anything from 36.6K dialup upwards will do..

Afraid that won't do. Up and Download are both 5-7 KB/s, so minimum that would work is dual (128Kbps) ISDN

For the people that compare this to net2phone ( which I have used from many years ago) and other programs like netmeeting, etc:

The voice quality is much BETTER than an eircom call!!!

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#12 18-01-2004 6:47pm

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anyone know of a way to recieve calls from a normal phone via one of these things ?

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#13 19-01-2004 12:52am

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Yep there is free world dialup (www.freeworlddialup.com) lets you get an incoming number in the uk or us that will ring your SIP phone, free world dialup is the best of all the community VOIP projects, skype is a bit of an upstart.

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#14 19-01-2004 1:00am

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I'm using it on 64k isdn. it's not the worst. Sometimes it can get a little laggy, others it just ****s up. And when using it I can't browse the net. If I was to try I'd never hear a word

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#15 20-01-2004 6:12pm

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https://vipnetphone.com

Dublin based crowd with PSTN Gateway...No incoming calls yet but can call Landlines and Mobiles...

Call rates are OK...but no Eircom line rental and you can receive on your mobile..

I am going to give it a try and will keep everyone posted.

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#16 20-01-2004 6:27pm

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I take it your broadband connection is not with an Eircon phonline or you'ld have to pay line rental

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#17 21-01-2004 4:33pm

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Check my post here, may be of use to some of you:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=136565

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#18 21-01-2004 4:40pm

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Originally posted by DaithiSurfer
I take it your broadband connection is not with an Eircon phonline or you'ld have to pay line rental

Yeah....I have a 1Meg wireless link....

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