Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Jan 8 22:51:17 CST 2005
Hi John: The new web phone service that we have hear, in the Great White North, and a few friends have gone the lengths of replace their land lines with an internet service. The most popular plan, is the cent a minute one. Anywhere, in the world... which calculates out to about $15.00Can for 24 hours of steady yakking. (Even I can not talk that long.) There is another service that can be purchased off the web and I assume there is an American equivalent... it is a Looney call, a buck for you Americans. It will allow you to call anywhere in the world, up to 38 minutes, for one looney. See the site www.looniecall.com/index.aspx (The site for those interested was written in the new ASP.Net.) Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 8:12 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Skype You do need to get out more. Vonage is a VOIP service. You contract with them, they send you a telephone modem that you connect to your high speed internet connection. The voice modem then connects to a regular telephone, including a cordless if you so desire. They have two plans, but I take the $25 for unlimited US and Canada calls, i.e. no long distance ever. Also calls to other countries are very cheap, about 6c / minute to talk to my friends down in Puebla Mexico - as opposed to about 16c / minute using a calling card, or about 37c / minute using my land line long distance carrier. Once I discovered that my 2.4 ghz cordless was interfering with and being interfered with by my wireless router (drop outs in the call for as much as a second or so) and got rid of that cordless phone, the sound quality has been VERY good! John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:59 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Skype Vonage is cell service? (I think I need to get out more.) Rocky ----- Original Message ----- From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 7:42 AM Subject: RE: [AccessD] Skype > Rocky, > > I have Vonage for my home office and it is very good - so good that I > am about to get rid of my landline. > > As for Skype, I just like the "free" part! ;-) I tested it yesterday > with > an AccessD user over in London and it was really quite acceptable, > especially for free! > > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: > http://folding.stanford.edu/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky > Smolin - Beach Access Software > Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:25 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Skype > > > John: > > I tried using it a few times a year ago and it was awful. Maybe it's > better > > now. > > I tried with Martin and never could get a could connection. Plus the > inconvenience of having to have the other person running Skype as > well. > > I use Primus now for overseas calls now - it's 5-6 cents a minute > anywhere. > Last month I talked to people all over the world for about an hour and got > a > > bill for $3 and change. > > Rocky > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> > To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 11:32 AM > Subject: [AccessD] Skype > > >> Does anyone have it? I just downloaded the driver and would like to >> test it. My user name is jwcolby. >> >> John W. 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