New service!

[chaoswolf]

Scype is a free service that allows free pc to pc but semi-expensive pc to telephone calls.
Good news: Myself, asahoshi, and drakk_draconian can hold 3 way conversations with the same effect as an IM with a web camera. Bad news: it costs money to call PC to phone.

Get this service, folks. It is a very good one that can allow free calls from PC to PC without driving our phone bill through the roof!

Comments

Eh.

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

I would suggest Free World Dialup (http://www.freeworlddialup.com/), which has an Inter-Asterisk Exchange gateway (i.e., when mdlbear manages to get Asterisk set up and connected to the network, you can call me on my FWD number -- ain't standards great?).

This is the time in VoIP technology where everyone's got ideas, and ways to communicate -- and every hacker's throwing up their hands in glee, trying to get things to work.

(Think about it: FWD provides 'presence' notification. If you have an Asterisk PBX answering your POTS line, it can see whether your FWD number is online -- if it is, it forwards it; if it's not, it goes to voicemail on your home Linux box. Or something. :))

I don't like Skype because of the peer-to-peer nature of its calls -- it uses your outgoing bandwidth like bittorrent does (read its Terms of Service) to serve other calls, as part of your service to the network.