Skype

[wutangstan]

Anybody out there use Skype? If you don't know, it's VoiP, Voice over internet protocol or something, It's basically using your PC and a microphone to call people and speak all over the world, I been using it to speak to my cousins In Australia, for free, and It is very good. You can also call landlines. but you have to pay for that, although it is very cheap still, I can get about 10 hours worth of calls to a landline for a bout £10, which is ultra cheap compared to normal calls.

[i`m a wannabe]

phone cards here are cheap and $10aud gets you about 600 mins chat time on phone calls

[MamaBush]

I've done the voice shit with yahoo in the past....don't know if Skype is like that or not. But, I didn't like talking that way....when one person talks, the other has to remain quiet or else the voice is kinda cut off and you only hear part of what was said.

[zokah]

yeah, there was a plugin like that for icq years ago - it sucked.
With this Skype I think you can actually make phonecalls?
Got a link stan?

[i`m a wannabe]

there are a few now that you can actually make phone calls with

[wutangstan]

http://www.skype.com/ Should do it, I bought a usb headphone and microphone set yesterday, It's great to be able to sit here at my pc, surfing the ol web and talking to my cuz in Oz 10,000 miles away, for as long as I like and knowing that it ain't costing me a penny.

[zokah]

thanks stan

[wutangstan]

If you use it, giz a bell.

[zokah]

k, I'm getting it but I don't know if I'll set up an account

[i`m a wannabe]

what are the actual costs is the trick question...you never get anything for free

[wutangstan]

The actual cost are..........nothing. in a monetary sense anyway. unless you want to call a landline, then it's nominal.
I don't know what the software has installed in it, but I spent another half hour talking to Oz for 0.00 pence today, so I'm happy. And the sound quality is exceptional, almost like there in the room with you.
The only sound quality issue was when my cuz had a connection to his office going at the same time, soon as he turned it off, excellent.

[i`m a wannabe]

so it is basically internet conferencing of some sort...similar to net meeting

[wutangstan]

Possibly, don't know the technical aspects of it, just know it works and is free.

[zokah]

me = dumb

I just realised I don't have a mic compatible with this box

[Martin]

Used Skype for some time now and it's one of the best voice software to use at the moment even when playing World of Warcraft it works very well.
Though for games ofc teamspeak is way better.
As with cost of calls to phone lines never used it can't really see any point

[xen]

I've used it a couple of times in the past but the sound qlty doesn't always seem to be that great....