On 9/29/07, Bradley Dorner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am looking at Skye as a possible replacement for most of my phone line > at home and for a small business. > I was wondering if anyone else has done this or what experiences people > have had with Skype? > I noticed that there are packages like skype pro and skype in that might > provide the basics of what > I am looking for, people can call me from any phone and I can call any > phone in the US. > > Anyway, what information can you give me? > > Thanks in advance, > Brad
I don't have much experience with Skype but it appears that you have received quite a bit of feedback on that aspect. I'd like to echo Michael's suggestion of Gizmo. For my second line at home I have a SIP ATA connected to a Asterisk PBX (runs on a Pentium 233 MHz with 64MB RAM) that in turn is connected to Gizmo. I buy Gizmo Out minutes for outbound calling. For inbound I have a phone number from IPKall (http://www.ipkall.com/), which is free albeit located in Washington state or I use SIPBroker's( http://www.sipbroker.com/sipbroker/action/login) PSTN gateway numbers to access my Asterisk PBX (I've registered my PBX with SIPBroker, *8135). Now, this is my second line so I don't care too much about the IPKall number needing to change and if I wanted, I could use the free Nevada number that I have from Gizmo (just requires me to press 1 to accept the incoming call) which hasn't changed on me ever and I haven't used it once. If I were to use it for a business, I'd look into a Gizmo In number. All in all I'm satisfied with my setup and the true test for me was to see if my wife would use it and she does. :-) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
