Do you use Skype?

[paul]

I don't use it much, anyone done a skype conference call? Can somebody tell me how I can use it for conference call ?

[izzetm]

Yes.I use skype.It is the best software.

[hairyfreak]

In a word; yes. I think that Skype is an incredible piece of software. I've used it to talk to friends, family and people on the other side of the world that I've never met, let alone spoken to or seen before. All of this, of course, requires no extra cost other than what I pay for my Internet connection anyway.

I've seen several Skype phones advertised recently, and would be interested in learning more. Has anyone had any experience with them?

[paul]

Thanks, I got skype, its now good that you can pay for Skype Credit through paypal.

[247h]

Originally Posted by hairyfreak

...requires no extra cost other than what I pay for my Internet connection anyway.

I have been a long-term user of Skype, thinking it was wonderful and would have agreed with all the praise mentioned here, but I recently discovered that the above statement about its cost is not necessarily accurate ...

Last month I was surprised to receive an email alert that my monthly bandwidth allowance had reached 50% — on 10th March (normally this happens between 17th - 23rd)! I could not account for this doubled consumption but made a conscious decision to be careful. (Note: My ISP, Zen Internet plan is capped at 20GB/month).

The 75% warning arrived on 23rd and I became more concerned (and careful)! The 90% warning came on the 26th and I knew there was a problem so began investigating my firewall logs and studying my router's Syslog output.

I was horrified to discover the huge volume of packet I/O from Skype — yes it had always been significant but this was now ridiculous and turning Skype off made NO difference whatsoever! I had become what I would describe as being a super-node on their peer-to-peer network!

I tried a variety of filtering tactics to curb this behaviour and soon realised Skype is so dynamic in its usage of different ports that it was impossible to control — googling for info confirmed that it's almost impossible to remove or filter unless you invest heavily in particular hardware or software.

Anyway, buying an extra 2GB of bandwidth on the 27th was only a temporary fix as it had gone by the 29th! I bought another 5 to see me through ...

I am very fortunate that I have been able to remove this juggernaut, only thanks to my Zen plan giving me 8 static IP addresses — I have a non-NAT network and use 3 or 4 of these IPs all the time, with the Skype traffic being on just one of them. So I simply stopped using that IP address and the problem disappeared completely — my used bandwidth this month is currently showing as only 4.161GB !!

I bet that's made some of you go scuttling off to check this out ...

[sabian1982]

I use skype, when i signed up for 10 credits (or something) i got six months of free calls to uk landlines... pretty cool

[narutorasengan16]

i have never used skype before, but i might consider it, for me...its just msn and aim...mostly msn though...

[rocklee0891]

Originally Posted by narutorasengan16

i have never used skype before, but i might consider it, for me...its just msn and aim...mostly msn though...

Same for me, I might get a Scype account, I use mainly MSN/AIM... I'd say I'm on both, all of the time. lol

[paul]

I like the Eqo service in skype where you can call to your Skype buddy lists by initiating call and get connected them directly on their cell phones ( The phone should supported for Sun Microsystems' Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME).

[hairyfreak]

Gadge, I've never heard of such a problem before, but an horrified. It's very good to see that you finally got the problem sorted.

Fortunately, I am on an uncapped connection so I don't believe I would incur any addition costs if I were to experience the same problem. However, as you said, I will be sure to check of Skype regularly now to ensure that it is not using masses of bandwidth!

[247h]

Originally Posted by CftxP

Wait a minute, what is teh use of a skype? Why would you need it? And is it something that's good, or is it just a waste of money?

Skype is for VOIP (voice over IP) or telephony over the Internet. Downloading and using the Skype engine is free, to talk or message-chat with other computer users, unless you want to call landline or cellular telephone numbers in which case you must buy usage credits (top up your account).

However as I pointed out earlier, in certain circumstances you can become one of their peer-to-peer supernodes and then your use of bandwidth can increase significantly! During the time I suffered this problem I would also say that any conversation I had over Skype was of a lesser quality than I had experienced previously, with frequent glitches and audio distortion.

I no longer use it ...

[flesso]

Yes, it's basically a phone service for the computer. If you sign up for Skype-In you can get a main land line number set-up for your Skype account. If you sign-up for Skype-Out then you can make calls to land line phones from your Skype account.

[247h]

Originally Posted by CftxP

Wow, then this is something! That's probably gonna be good for my dad if he used it! So is this like a phone service or something, or is Skype something else?

Dear CftxP, when I wrote my earlier reply to you I hadn't read all of the other recent posts today, but having answered your question I then found that 90% of the other recent posts were all written by you and in most cases, they were trivial questions or comments, one-liners mostly!

You're young and enthusiastic, that's good! BUT, you also made it perfectly clear to all of us that what you're really doing is posting as much as possible today to reach 30 messages that will help you qualify for a free domain name!
You've just asked me a pointless question, for which I already gave you the answers — the only other suggestion I might have made to you is to go and use Google to do some research on VOIP and Skype, so I apologise for not doing so.

When I claim my free domain, I'm going to ignore these two messages in my post count ...

[flesso]

Anyone in the world, but you have to pay.

May I echo what 247h said:

You have made it pretty clear that you're trying to reach 30 posts to claim your free domain. Don't deny it, it's pretty obvious.

[flesso]

Originally Posted by CftxP

I not denying it, or arguing against it! You know why, because this is the reason. If you want to know why, it's because I've been searching for a month or two for a free domain. And I finally found a place to get one (this forum), and I'd really like to get doing this overwith. Not that I don't care about what you say, because I do, but I haven't been interacting with the forums that I usually do and I'd really like to do that, but I keep getting twisted in this free domain stuff and I'm stuck! I know, you might be staying things like "Then Stop!", but it isn't that easy! If it were that easy, then I wouldn't even be here posting in these forums! Once you're stuck, you're stuck for a long time. What'll stop this unhealthy habit is getting a free domain! It may sound like a stupid excuse to say but sadly, it's the truth! And I really want to be set free!

If you're that desperate, just buy one...

[flesso]

Fair enough, but asking questions like 'Why do you need an IP address to access the FTP service?' aren't going to get you far. You need to post helpful things, not go and ask obvious things like that. I'll be putting in a request to have all messages from your first one downwards on this thread deleted, because they have no link to the thread at all.

[eUKhost.com]

CftxP,

please stop now. please donot spoil shape of the forum as some important threads are under discussion and your free domain demand is making things difficult for other members as well.

You can stop posting now and get your free domain registered after 9 days.

[flesso]

I've seen some hosts using Skype, as I'm setting up my own design business, would it be an idea to get Skype to let clients contact me? And maybe Skype-In and Skype-Out to make communicating easier?

Out of interest:

If anyone is with another that uses Skype, do you bother to use it to talk to them, or do you just use the normal phone?

[eUKhost.com]

lol

you are simply behaving like a Kid and thats what makes me laugh about guys of your age. even Josh ( Flesso ) is as young as you but see the quality of work he does and knowledge he has got.

Even his parents wont give him money to buy domains or anything else online but he has established his web development business and he needs no money from his parents.

You need to learn to be patient as there will be many ups and downs coming in your lif