 Is Voip Good Technology?, what are your thoughts! |
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 Jan 3 2006, 04:10 PM
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Member [Level 1]  Group: Members Posts: 55 Joined: 3-January 06 Member No.: 16,533  |
I have recently downloaded a VoIP free service (Voice over Internet Protocol, computer-to-computer chatting) called GloPhone (GloPhone, and find that it ROCKS! GloPhone gives you a free telephone number from the USA and allows you to call any other person using GloPhone by typing in their telephone number.
Also, for a low cost, you can purchase a plan that allows your computer to send a call to any actual telephone in the USA or Canada. However, GloPhone is not the only VoIP Service Provider...I have seen a United-Kingdom-based VoIP provider known as Skype (http://www.download.com and search up Skype) I am unaware of their web site, however I am sure that you can download Skype from cNet Download.com Does anyone else have a VoIP account, provider or telephone number? Skype does not give you a telephone number like GloPhone, they force you to add other people's email addresses who you know that use Skype Messenger to your "Contacts List", and then you can contact them whenever Skype Messenger notices that their IP Address comes online, or they sign onto Skype Messenger... If anyone else uses VoIP, can they please Private Message (PM) me their email address and VoIP Provider? I am aware that if one person uses GloPhone and another person uses Skype, they cannot interact with each other...  Oh, and finally, another VoIP Service Provider can be Vonage, however even their cheapest plan, which allows you to contact a telephone anywhere in North America, I believe, costs money. There is no basic VoIP Plan with Vonage, allowing two computers to interact... Respond! I would appreciate more people on my contact list! GloPhone Fan, Stephen This post has been edited by mayank: Jan 3 2006, 08:22 PM |
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Jan 5 2006, 03:10 AM
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Trap Grand Marshal Member Group: Members Posts: 1,182 Joined: 24-September 04 Member No.: 1,245 |
and you dont' gave your contact number of Glophone. my number is 5013860220 Ext. 8628
just leave message to me,  -- and i just thank you so a lot for that only 384 Kb 's programme,since i know the Voip tech is more grownup than before,i'm just searching the project from sourceforge but just no results. is there a really free and opensource p2p voip phone ?? even it didn't gave me number i'd like that. QUOTE they force you to add other people's email addresses who you know that use Skype Messenger to your "Contacts List", and then you can contact them whenever Skype Messenger notices that their IP Address comes online, or they sign onto Skype Messenger... skype of course been used mostly i think. 
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Jan 5 2006, 04:37 AM
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Trap Grand Marshal Member Group: Members Posts: 1,203 Joined: 25-March 05 Member No.: 4,883 |
I use Skype because I think it's the best choice among all VoIP providers, in terms of voice quality. It's free PC-to-PC calls certainly rule out many other VoIP providers. Also, Skype sometimes surprises its users by giving free Skypeout minutes which you can use it to call lanelines and mobile phones free for that total minutes provided. Other than that, it uses encryption for the voice data that sent into the internet. Besides, file transfer and text messenging are also encrypted. That makes Skype one of the most secure Instant Messenger (IM) as well.
I would probably just stick to skype for personal use. Probably Google Talk might be the next provider that I might be trying out.. |
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Jan 8 2006, 07:18 AM
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Trap Grand Marshal Member Group: Members Posts: 1,182 Joined: 24-September 04 Member No.: 1,245 |
but hey guy,do you tried the both how about the voice quality,then just gave some test for more and more VOIP communication tools..
 anyway the pc to pc is always free,and it surely must i think. |
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 Jan 13 2006, 01:06 PM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 38 Joined: 13-January 06 Member No.: 17,042 |
Well i tried my first VoIP software about two months ago and was very disappointed.I thought it was toatally free! but to my surprise i found out i have to pay to get a cal. so ever since i've loss my hope in these software!
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Jan 14 2006, 08:06 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 172 Joined: 18-August 05 Member No.: 10,836 |
VoIP sux if you ask me. use jabber, use gtalk, use msn...
and there is email, affcourse forums are there... Why would you use VoIP ? i conntact more on msn with people from my city and people that i know then on telephon. but its free, i can talk free to my firends on the other side of eart h and its still free and fast. and like Sarith sad you have to pay to get cals.. is that true ? |
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Jan 16 2006, 02:53 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 268 Joined: 10-October 05 From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Member No.: 12,762 |
I think PC to landlines/mobile VoIP is a very convienient technology because it connects me with people who perfer to use the phone over the computer to chat where as I perfer to use the computer over the phone to chat. I currently use skype to do this and the rates are good. The PC to PC VoIP I think is redundant because there are so many different programs that you would have to download the talk to a large number of people.
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Jan 16 2006, 04:06 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 425 Joined: 24-September 05 Member No.: 12,212 |
I almost converted the house to use VOIP phones instead of landlines. Vonage...but we if internet was down...then we'd lose phone so we decided on the landlines.
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Jan 16 2006, 04:26 AM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 56 Joined: 15-January 06 Member No.: 17,166 |
we reciently got it and it sucks!!!!!!!
you can hear your echo when every you talk and theirs like a 2 second delay and its a pain in the butt |