Skype on iBurst

[markslingsby]

Hi,

I am on iBurst and am using skype in conjunction with a dualphone . It works amazingly for me in Cape Town (our network seems to be separate to the rest of the country) So how is it in JHB and Durbs?

The phone i am using is a cordless DECT phone with a USB cable and telkom line. So you can receive and make calls from the phone on both telcon and skype (seamlessly!) go check it out: www.dualphone.co.za

It rocks for me!

 

[Daveogg]

Mark got the dual phone here in durban too. Works a treat.

 

[GuRu]

Who You Gonna Call ???

Is there a Skype Telephone directory out there for people who have Skype phones ? If not it might be good idea to get one going .

 

[LandyMan]

Using Skype on my PC ... works like a charm .. do alot of conf calls to Sweden and Netherlands

 

[markslingsby]

I called my sister this morning in the US for 25 mins. Cost me approximately R2.50.

Telkom will cost me approx 25m x R2 or R2.50 - call it R50. How is that for a saving!

That works out to 5% of the cost of telkom + a bit of bandwidth. It uses about 3-16 kilobytes/sec depending on which codec used. so lets call it 16kb or 2Kb/sec. Thats 3MB for the 25min conversation. LOVELY!

This was using the dualphone

 

[Jerry]

Is there a Skype Telephone directory out there for people who have Skype phones ? If not it might be good idea to get one going .

Skype has its own built-in directory / search function. The Skype phone seems like a cool gadget, pity it's only windoze....

 

[markslingsby]

I chatted to the product manager and he said that there is no support for MAC or Linux unfortunately.

But there are other options they are looking at at the moment with voip services / skype products.

 

[ic]

Ummm, out of interest who has Skype installed on Linux?

 

[markslingsby]

Skype works with Linux & Mac (apparently)

Anyone else got it going?

I can try on monday on Ubuntu and see if it works.

 

[Bjorn]

i got the cordless dual phone when usig skype in jhb sounds like the other person is under water.. is anyone else having trouble with skype in jhb area?

 

[aborg]

I think Skype will only work well if you have not been capped...

 

[RichardG]

True or if there is wireless telephone network coming into South Africa, I had ears open about Wireless Telephone company opening maybe in 2 yrs time.

 

[sihen]

IC i have skype running on linux,

I also have a dual skype phone and it works like a charm.

Dylan

 

[sihen]

markslingsby dont expect apt-get to find skype cause it doesnt, get skype for linux from www.freshmeat.net

 

[jmn]

On the shype site:

RPM for SuSE 9 and newer (5.6 MB)

Version: 1.1.0.20. Release date: March 18, 2005

RPM for Mandrake 10.1 and newer (5.6 MB)

RPM for Fedora Core 3 (5.6 MB)

Debian package (5.7 MB)
Xandros, MEPIS, Ubuntu, other Debian-based distros

Dynamic binary tar.bz2 (5.7 MB)
Requires Qt 3.2

Static binary tar.bz2 with Qt 3.2 compiled in (8.3 MB)
Use if the above don’t work.

 

[Jerry]

Skype on Mac

If you are on a mac & using skype, pair your bluetooth headset with the mac & tell skype to use the bluetooth connection. Works like a charm!

 

[ic]

... get skype for linux from www.freshmeat.net

Hi Dylan

I used Skype to Poland last night, and the latency was horrible, quality was bad, and there was a considerable lag as well . I am not cr@pped - I have over 2.5GB left.

About downloading Skype from freashmeat, is this any better than downloading it directly from http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/?

Skype for Mac OS X is also available http://www.skype.com/products/skype/macosx/

 

[RichardG]

IC, I know how you feel man. I had the same issue calling to America, I couldn't hardly hear them..

 

[Swoosh]

I do Skype almost every night.. speaking to friends in the UK and Netherlands..no problem at all..

 

[Daveogg]

IC there is a interesting website.

www.testyourvoip.com

I usually get between 3 - 4 on both iburst and isdn, which is rated between a crummy cell phone (3) and a good cell phone (4). which is kinda how i would describe it.
Run it and let us know what you score.