Skype

[MURP]

anybody here use Skype?    I was checking out the site and one of the questions it didnt answer for me was:  how does the person you are trying to call know you are calling?  Do they have to be sitting at their computer to see it incoming?  Does it ring through their speakers?   

[hbionic]

I had a serbian friend tell me about skype...didn't use it though. Isn't it similar to an instant messaging service 'cept its more like vonage...without the fees? What did I say?

[Diomedes]

Does it ring through their speakers?

Yes.  You also get a visual cue.

[MURP]

eh...... just found it.

If someone is calling you, you will hear the sound of a telephone ringing and the Skype icon in your system tray will flash. .

guess you have to leave your speakers on all the time if you are not by the computer.

[Father Demon]

Kinda speaking of...   we just switched to Vonage last week, and other than minor interuptions in a call while also actively surfing, I have no complaints.  The price is right, and the features (free) fit right in...

Just sayin....

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Kinda speaking of...   we just switched to Vonage last week, and other than minor interuptions in a call while also actively surfing, I have no complaints.  The price is right, and the features (free) fit right in...

Just sayin....

I agree.  If anyone wants an extra free month, feel free to PM me.

[General_Failure]

I've been using it for a month now, had to pick it up for weekly conference calls.

[jeffreyjpa]

Just picked up Comcast's new VoIP service (called "Digital Voice") about a month ago, and have no complaints...the Tech who installed it said it runs on the same main VoIP switch in Denver on which Vonage is supported.

The caller ID is a little farged up, but for $27 a month with voicemail and unlimited LD calling, I'll take it...I was paying Verizon $77 a month for the same service.

[Sgt PSN]

I've been using it for a month now, had to pick it up for weekly conference calls.

What conference calls?  Don't tell me the guys in your D&D club too lazy to meet you in your parent's basement now.

[General_Failure]

I've been using it for a month now, had to pick it up for weekly conference calls.

What conference calls?  Don't tell me the guys in your D&D club too lazy to meet you in your parent's basement now.

My boss in Korea likes to have weekly meetings, then we talk to his wife for the next six hours.

[mussa]

I thought this thread was about a new STD or something. 

[Diomedes]

Ha.  I thought it was a new drug the first time I heard someone say "do you use Skype?"  I was happy to be ignorant, but disappointed to learn it was just free talk over the internet. 

WE NEED SOME NEW DRUGS, GODDAMNIT!!

[mussa]

i got the Skype!  That shtein burns! 

[General_Failure]

Ha.  I thought it was a new drug the first time I heard someone say "do you use Skype?"  I was happy to be ignorant, but disappointed to learn it was just free talk over the internet. 

WE NEED SOME NEW DRUGS, GODDAMNIT!!

If we'd stop cutting down the rain forest we'd probably find all kinds of plants to farg you up. But I need toilet paper, so farg it.

[Diomedes]

You could supply the world with toilet paper for the rest of eternity if it were legal to produce marijuana commercially.  That shtein is renewable and grows like.....a weed.  Makes nice paper.

Pass the bong, man.