<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 7, 2008 12:51 PM, William Tracy <<a href="mailto:afishionado@gmail.com">afishionado@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Jan 7, 2008 7:03 AM, Jerome Hall <<a href="mailto:jhall.geology@gmail.com">jhall.geology@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> My experience with Ekiga has been very good, my wife and I used to to talk<br>> while she was in remote montana last summer. Good codec support and easy to
<br>> setup. I am trying out the new KDE varaint sometime soon as it has come<br>> recommended, but so far I like Ekiga for targeted VOIP. Skype is nice<br>> because alot of people use it, but Ekiga is much more powerful.
<br>><br>> Jerome<br><br>Any experience calling to/from landlines with it? Right now, Skype is<br>my only phone service.<br><br>What I've basically heard is that Ekiga and SIP are much nicer than<br>Skype's proprietary system, but that the commercial providers that
<br>provide the SIP services I would need tend to suck. :-(<br></blockquote></div><br>I used it to call my daughter in Japan and it worked fine. I used Ekiga PC-to-phone with <a href="http://eugw.ast.diamondcard.us">eugw.ast.diamondcard.us
</a><br>you have to periodically put money in the account for it to work. It did take me a while to find the exact phone numbers to call her. You have to do something tricky to get to Japan.<br><br>-- <br>Jack Smith<br>
<br>English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.