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5/5 I'm using Skype right now. It is a very effective tool and is a good
replacement for my unreliable cell-phone. So far I've only used
PC-to-PC version and the latency is a lot lower than Yahoo and MSN
talk. I think as long as you unblock your firewall and the ping is
fast (less than 100ms), the quality is pretty good. I haven't used
Skype-Out (PC to phone) or Skype-In (phone to PC), but my friend said
it's pretty good. However, Skype-Out to India sucks... I guess the
latency really gets to them.
\_ It really depends. .ch to .au is great, .ch to 300 meters down
the road is ass. They also locate a bunch of their major nodes
in places like Latvia (Lithuania?) to save money, so your mileage
may vary. Plus there were a few nifty security problems reported
with it a while ago. Unfortunately, interest in pgpfone seems
to be pretty dead. -John
\_ I've used both SkypeIn and SkypeOut. I found that Skype has
best sound quality. SkypeIn comes in second. SkypeOut is by
far the worse. All of them are kind of hit and miss. Sometimes
it worked like a charm, other times, it's untolerable. I mostly
call US from major cities in China/Taiwan. The experience of
calling Papa New Geninue was a nightmare. |
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