OT: VoIP for Win2K/XP

[Peter Snowberg]

I just wanted to let folks know about a very cool and free VoIP system that I'm starting to play with.

http://www.skype.com/

It's encrypted and tolerant of firewalls, but it's still in beta and currently limited to communication between PCs running Windows 2000 or XP.

Just thought I would pass that along. VoIP is finally reaching the consumer threshold.


Take care,
-Peter

[javacody]

Cool  Peter!  I'll have to get my mom on this!

[Joep]

Hi Peter,

Did you tried it yourself? How's the quality?

I work for a major telephone company (configuring Cisco routers most of my time) and we are taking all kind of actions to keep up the quality (fragmantation, QoS (quality of service) and priority queueing). Nice to know it works fine over the internet too!  :wink:

Bye,

Joep

[Peter Snowberg]

One call so far to a random person advertising "test calls welcome", but I don't have a headset (just speakers and a very inexpensive microphone). Skype does not implement a CAFIR filter in their system so feedback was a problem on my end and I could not judge it yet it all fairness.

I looked around and it's rated very highly by a great deal of people. The user interface is quite smooth. I have a full T1 for my net connection so bandwidth isn't much of an issue here. Feel free to look me up if you install the software.

Now to "convert" a couple of friends with Win98 & WinME on their machines.  :wink:

Take care,
-Peter