On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:01:12PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Alan Chandler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Rumour has it that the skype protocol will route (other peoples) voice > > traffic through your PC even when you are not making a call. > > Not just rumour but confirmed by the "technical" information on Skype's > own website.
I have heard just to many bad things about skype, eves dropping etc,
sorry why use skype instead of voip.
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> > There are STANDARDS in place for voip and it might be better to use
> > them. [...]
>
> > There used to be a service called Freeworlddialup which you could
> > connect to other people in the world, but last year it went over to a
> > paying service. Since I've never used it, it didn't matter.
>
> Take a look at a SIP based VoIP softphone such as twinkle or ekiga
> (or a hardware device such as the Sipura/Linksys SPA3102). European
> users can use companies such as Sipgate or SMSListo.com to route phone
> calls bidirectionally between their PC and the world's phone network. UK
> users considering this option could do well to search the archives of
> the usenet newsgroup uk.telecom.voip for plenty of practical details.
>
> I believe there are also Skype/SIP gateways but I've not (yet) used one.
>
> Chris
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