On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:35:47 GMT, Lobster
<davidlobsterpot601@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Brian A wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:56:54 GMT, Lobster
>> <davidlobsterpot601@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm going to the USA for a period soon and will be staying in
>>> wi-fi-enabled (ie, free) homes. Will be taking a laptop with me.
>
>Thanks everyone for the advice - much appreciated.
>
>> In my opinion it is not a good plan to limit yourself to Skype. If you
>> go for Skype you will be commiting yourself to a single provider. If
>> you go for SIP voip you will have the choice of hundreds of providers.
>
>Got it. Have signed up at sipgate.co.uk for now, and will see how I get
>on (if ever they get round to emailing the activation link! :-( )
>
>> If you are tied to wifi, as opposed to a wired link to the Net, then
>> you will not be able to easily use a wifi adapter. This means the use
>> of a wifi phone. I'll leave it to others to suggest what phone would
>> be best.
>> Alternatively, you could use a softphone on a laptop, if you have
>> one, that would cost you nothing but you would be tied to your laptop.
>
>For now I have a earpiece/mic combo I can use to test it all out, but I
>thought you could buy a voipy-type phone with a USB plug on the end
>which connected to the computer... is that not the case (at least with
>wifi?) What's the difference with a wifi and hard-wired connection?
>
>> Such software could be x-lite. I would recommend a voxalot set up for
>> that as it would permit numerous incoming and outgoing providers.
>
>> Also, check out the services of
>> http://www.voxalot.com
>
>Seems to be n/a - is that temporary or is it defunct? Have downloaded
>x-lite from Sipgate.
>
>So... given that shortly I will be able to call a UK number from my
>laptop here in the UK, at 1.2p/min, or a US number at a whopping
>1.5p/min - am I right in thinking that when I go to the US and use the
>laptop there, the tariffs will be identical when calling those countries?
You could use Vyke for 2p/call to these destinations (not per minute).
voip.co.uk UK pack is very good and you will get a free geo number as
well.
If you want more outgoing providers though, with the free x-lite,
you'll have to use voxalot..
You are right re voxalot. I've never known their site go down before.
The voxalot phone service (Eu server) is still working well for me
though. No doubt the web site will be up again soon.



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