I love the idea of skype as not only an audio solution that's more reliable, but also a dial-up/conference call solution for cell phone users -- bye bye gentner phone box!
One interesting note: video4skype is XP only? -- perhaps a straw man poll about platforms isn't a bad idea, since we've been investing heavily in the idea that there are linux and mac users of the AG out there :-) Anybody know if this video4skype (I know plain old audio skype is) is available for non-XP platforms? --Ivan > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremy Mann > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 3:28 PM > To: Lee Margetts > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Interesting use of VoIP > > > Lee Margetts said: > > That is very interesting. Personally, I (and my skype friends) > > abandoned using a PIG and started using SKYPE around a year > ago. It > > has easy conference calling, VoIP to standard telephone, easy file > > sharing and easy text chat. It works 99.99% of the time and only > > takes 15-20 seconds to install from the web! Even my > granny uses it. > > No messing about with multicast, bridges, the latest "in > vogue" MUD > > package, IP numbers, ports, > > AG2 etc. etc. > > > > If there's video4skype too, I'm even less likely to return to AG. > > www.video4skype.com > > The only problem I can see with Skype are the Conference > Calls. If a user who doesn't have the video plugin connects > to the conference, all video's stop going back to audio. And > there is a limit of only 4 connects. > > But, I'm still sold at using this as a backup solution for > network problems. > > > > -- > Jeremy Mann > [email protected] > > University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core > Facility http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu > Phone: (210) 567-2672 > >
