Skype
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From: All The Places I Shouldnt Be
Come on everyone, there must be more of you out there on Skype, if not how about downloading it and getting it going. Its a great way to keep in touch with people.
Heck just tonight I have been messaging with people in Sth Africa, Italy, Dubai and Afghanistan.
File transfer is great also, just been sending photos back and forth to Dubai with not one single problem. Great work tool as well as a business tool.
If you are interested drop me an instant message to KiwiNed
Cheers
Ned
Heck just tonight I have been messaging with people in Sth Africa, Italy, Dubai and Afghanistan.
File transfer is great also, just been sending photos back and forth to Dubai with not one single problem. Great work tool as well as a business tool.
If you are interested drop me an instant message to KiwiNed
Cheers
Ned
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From: Canberra Australia
Skype in Oz and around the planet is great except that at peak times on the overloaded net here we have the odd interupt and occasional drop out. Indecernable delays in the Skype conversations unlike VoipBusters when the audio seems to bounce back and forth through Switzerland.
Audio is better quality than telephone when using a Voip (Voice on Internet Protocol) USB handset. They sell for about A$50.
Had no trouble paying Skype/out one Euro by credit card about a month ago. Calls to hard wired telephones are costing about 3 Oz cents per minute.
Often one sees more than 3 million on line using Skype. Many ISPs are beginning to offer Voip services.
Ebay has bought Skype for multi billions so maybe there is an inherent threat to claw back some revenue. Ebay does say though that their intention is to recoup through the use of Skype linkage between sellers and buyers within Ebay leaving us to the joys of enhanced almost free communications.
Hope we don't overload the net!
Audio is better quality than telephone when using a Voip (Voice on Internet Protocol) USB handset. They sell for about A$50.
Had no trouble paying Skype/out one Euro by credit card about a month ago. Calls to hard wired telephones are costing about 3 Oz cents per minute.
Often one sees more than 3 million on line using Skype. Many ISPs are beginning to offer Voip services.
Ebay has bought Skype for multi billions so maybe there is an inherent threat to claw back some revenue. Ebay does say though that their intention is to recoup through the use of Skype linkage between sellers and buyers within Ebay leaving us to the joys of enhanced almost free communications.
Hope we don't overload the net!
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From: Downeast
Oh Blast....technology is leaving me in the dust....off to buy a headset today....then I guess one can say I am a Skyper.
Reckon I will cling to the old Sasless moniker.....
Reckon I will cling to the old Sasless moniker.....
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From: Europe trying to enjoy retirement “YES”
Any computer nerds with ideas on how to bypass an internet providers firewall so that systems like this will work!!! A list of available active Primary and Alternate Gateway addresses with active Port numbers would help. This would allow the Gateway to be set manually and bypass the blocked gateways presently set.
The ones shown on the FAQ web page are no good and have been blocked by the fire wall.
PM me if you don’t want to advertise your expertise in this black art.
outhouse
The ones shown on the FAQ web page are no good and have been blocked by the fire wall.
PM me if you don’t want to advertise your expertise in this black art.
outhouse
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From: N20,W99
Mine is BlenderPilot,
so go ahead and Skype me when you want and don't be intimidated if you hear Mariachis in the background, its just me and my fellow pilots at our part time job we have to make ends meet.
so go ahead and Skype me when you want and don't be intimidated if you hear Mariachis in the background, its just me and my fellow pilots at our part time job we have to make ends meet.
Last edited by BlenderPilot; 25th October 2005 at 04:49.
Joined: May 2002
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From: Downeast
Chatted with Rattler 27 for an hour and a half yesterday....him near Munich and me in Tarheel Land. It sure beats e-mail and messaging. Laughter is a wonderful thing!
Retired Air Force Biker Lady in Oregon now chats with her Twit of a Fighter Pilot brother in the Sandbox using Skype.
This is catching on......
Retired Air Force Biker Lady in Oregon now chats with her Twit of a Fighter Pilot brother in the Sandbox using Skype.
This is catching on......
Joined: Dec 2004
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From: the right seat
You've got me at it now. I am boring everybody I meet now with the beauty of Skype. Working in Covent Garden yesterday, so off to TCR to splash £12 on a headset. Back to the place I was working for the day, onto their open wireless network and sat with laptop talking to sister-in-law in New York. Amazing. Email search brought up a guy that works for me in Spain who has no landline (too remote) but does have satellite internet. Two minutes later we were chatting for free. Amazing.
Oh yes, and if you want to sneak off abroad for a long time, you can get an 020 7 number and appear to still be in the centre of the City. Teeeee heeee.......
If you are on Orange, 330 gives free redirection to a landline, so hop on that plane, 330 to your Skype landline, and leave your laptop connected wherever you may land. Can't be bad. Beats having a Blackberry!
Oh yes, and if you want to sneak off abroad for a long time, you can get an 020 7 number and appear to still be in the centre of the City. Teeeee heeee.......
If you are on Orange, 330 gives free redirection to a landline, so hop on that plane, 330 to your Skype landline, and leave your laptop connected wherever you may land. Can't be bad. Beats having a Blackberry!
