14 Sep
2004
14 Sep
'04
1:04 p.m.
Mike Pressel wrote:
I've played around with Skype quite a bit at work.
It is very slick! It uses
http for all data transfers, so it will make it through most firewalls
without a problem (even works around proxies). The voice quality was
startlingly good, especially considering that we have a 1Mbps ADSL line with
no QoS configured on it.
However, the really cool thing about it is that they are now offering phone
calls to normal phone lines throughout Europe at very competitive prices.
True indeed, I have skypeout credit and tested it quite extensively. I
failed on making calls to a Luxie Mobile Phone which was a bit
dissapointing but all the fixed line stuff worked more or less great.
The not so great things are really LOUD noises when the line "breaks".
Apart from that I find it cool that it uses an Existing p2p network and
that it encrypts 256bit by default, no possibility to go back to plain
text :)
cheers,
Steve C
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ION Network Solutions
Steve Clement
Unix System Administrator
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