[NBLUG/talk] [WLUG] Re: Microphones not working in Fedora 8

Jack Smith jack.delbert at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 11:54:53 PST 2008


On Jan 7, 2008 12:51 PM, William Tracy <afishionado at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 7, 2008 7:03 AM, Jerome Hall <jhall.geology at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My experience with Ekiga has been very good, my wife and I used to to
> talk
> > while she was in remote montana last summer.  Good codec support and
> easy to
> > setup.  I am trying out the new KDE varaint sometime soon as it has come
> > recommended, but so far I like Ekiga for targeted VOIP.  Skype is nice
> > because alot of people use it, but Ekiga is much more powerful.
> >
> > Jerome
>
> Any experience calling to/from landlines with it? Right now, Skype is
> my only phone service.
>
> What I've basically heard is that Ekiga and SIP are much nicer than
> Skype's proprietary system, but that the commercial providers that
> provide the SIP services I would need tend to suck. :-(
>

I used it to call my daughter in Japan and it worked fine.  I used Ekiga
PC-to-phone with eugw.ast.diamondcard.us
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.

-- 
Jack Smith

English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other
languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.
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