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On Thursday 18 January 2007 20:59, Simon Waters wrote: > Tom Potts wrote: > > Skypes starting to mess about more: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/18/skype_connection_charge/ > > Since this is calls out of their network, the charges are presumably in > part to meet costs of connecting to third party networks. I don't think > one can call that messing around, unless you are privvy to how they are > being treated by the big telecoms companies. But they do mess about with QOS if your not a paying user as far as I can tell - calls to a mate on Skype in NZ go very dislocated (bandwidth restricted to allow VOIP all it needs) while downloads from the web server on the same machine are uninterrupted. May be a coincidence but if your trying to make business out of something thats inherently free... > Why do that, why not use one of the free VOIP providers to give you > presence information. ekiga.net is pretty easy to set up with. I don't want to have to manage another bucket load of different directories - its a pain with IM. An email is normally fast enough and establishes presence. > "Simple" and "install of Asterix" don't sit well in the same sentence. Pity - it would be nice to set up something for a 'home PC' that you could then just grow into enterprise. Come to think of it thats most applications.. > Ekiga has issues with ALSA (especially software mixing). They blame > ALSA, and by fiddling with .asoundrc I can fix the worst of the issues. > Skype doesn't have these issues with ALSA however, so I suspect a > knowledge gap somewhere. Some of these are due to having a rubbish sound > card that doesn't do mixing in hardware, but hey it is a Pentium 2.8 GHz > processor, how difficult can mixing of a 28kbps channel be?! I seem to remember doing real time mixing (4*64kbps) on a 486 pc many moons ago - ok it was in DOS. > I tried persuading everyone here to try VOIP last year with mixed > results. But we can try again... we might learn more about Linux audio! If anyone does can they document it please? Tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html