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Amber Lamps
04-08-2009, 11:29 AM
I just paid my Skype bill, which is $7.95 for 3 months of unlimited calls to the U.S.A. and Canada btw and I can't help but be pissed because the city council here has been promising city wide WiFi since I moved here! Man if they do that,I'll buy a $100 Skype WiFi phone (or use my PSP) and a cheap pre-paid phone and be done with it!!! Seriously,Skype is the shit!!!
tommymac
04-08-2009, 11:32 AM
Optimum online is doing that on Long Island

Tom
Amber Lamps
04-08-2009, 11:45 AM
Optimum online is doing that on Long Island

Tom


Lucky fuck! I'm sure the mobile carriers are lobbying their asses off against it but someday..... the only one that is getting somewhat on the bandwagon is T-Mobile with their mobile/voip phones. If you are in a wireless environment,like your home,it uses WiFi. If you're out and about...mobile.
tommymac
04-08-2009, 11:57 AM
the funny thing is they have a map of the covered areas, th ehouse were buying is leterally on the edge of their area, but if I go down to the park I would have signal. Were prolly going to be going with FIOS anyway.

Tom
Rsv1000R
04-08-2009, 12:12 PM
Lucky fuck! I'm sure the mobile carriers are lobbying their asses off against it but someday..... the only one that is getting somewhat on the bandwagon is T-Mobile with their mobile/voip phones. If you are in a wireless environment,like your home,it uses WiFi. If you're out and about...mobile.

They talked about doing that with PCS 10 years ago, it isn't a matter of being able to do it, it's wanting to do it.
Amber Lamps
04-08-2009, 12:15 PM
They talked about doing that with PCS 10 years ago, it isn't a matter of being able to do it, it's wanting to do it.


Oh yea I'm sure lots of money is being spent NOT to do it!
njchopper87
04-08-2009, 12:32 PM
I didn't know you could make regular phone calls with skype. I thought you could just call skype numbers.. Maybe I'll go for this instead of fucking Magic Jack.. that shit is a real rip off.
Homeslice
04-08-2009, 12:35 PM
Can you port your old number over to Skype so people can call you on it?
unknownroad
04-08-2009, 12:40 PM
With tax revenues down from the recession, I wouldn't count on it any time soon! I actually thought most of the cheap wide-area Wi-Fi projects had shut down for being too unprofitable.

Anyway, I'm paying $600/month for a T1 line to my house because it was the only way to get reliable, low-latency broadband, so all y'all can just bite me :rant:
Amber Lamps
04-08-2009, 12:41 PM
Can you port your old number over to Skype so people can call you on it?

Your home number? Hmmm...I don't know. I'll check but I don't think so.
Amber Lamps
04-08-2009, 12:45 PM
I didn't know you could make regular phone calls with skype. I thought you could just call skype numbers.. Maybe I'll go for this instead of fucking Magic Jack.. that shit is a real rip off.

DO NOT GET MAGIC JACK!!! That fucking thing sucks! I had one and I tried 3 different cordless phones and I couldn't get it to work right! I had to reboot it all the time. Besides,Skype is cooler because you can use it with any computer/internet device with a mike and speaker. Including a PSP,Mio and actually,I believe you can use it with WiFi capable smart phones.
Amber Lamps
04-08-2009, 12:47 PM
With tax revenues down from the recession, I wouldn't count on it any time soon! I actually thought most of the cheap wide-area Wi-Fi projects had shut down for being too unprofitable.

Anyway, I'm paying $600/month for a T1 line to my house because it was the only way to get reliable, low-latency broadband, so all y'all can just bite me :rant:


Ummm...satellite?
njchopper87
04-08-2009, 05:13 PM
DO NOT GET MAGIC JACK!!! That fucking thing sucks! I had one and I tried 3 different cordless phones and I couldn't get it to work right! I had to reboot it all the time. Besides,Skype is cooler because you can use it with any computer/internet device with a mike and speaker. Including a PSP,Mio and actually,I believe you can use it with WiFi capable smart phones.

Too late. I got it for my parents as a Christmas gift. This will be my first and only year of service. It took us a couple phones too, and even then the signal blows and you can't always make calls.
Amber Lamps
04-08-2009, 09:34 PM
Too late. I got it for my parents as a Christmas gift. This will be my first and only year of service. It took us a couple phones too, and even then the signal blows and you can't always make calls.

Shoot! Well,it was "magic" the way they "jack"ed your money,anyway....:lol::sorry: If your parents have WiFi get them a Skype phone next Christmas.
unknownroad
04-09-2009, 08:30 AM
Ummm...satellite?

Satellite is about as far as you can get from reliable and low-latency :panic:
Amber Lamps
04-09-2009, 11:37 AM
Satellite is about as far as you can get from reliable and low-latency :panic:

Yea but $600 a month? Tell you what for $500 a month,you can call me and I'll look up anything you want on the net,print it and mail it to you.