"Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups@yahoo.com> wrote in news:dFGvj.16168
$Gv.4746@en-nntp-07.dc1.easynews.com:

> Hi Todd,
>
> "Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in message
> news:9Ysvj.36$OB5.12@fe127.usenetserver.com...
>> Perhaps, but many businesses use VoIP themselves these days (but
under
>> ideal balanced network conditions vs. those at home)
>
> That's a big difference in my mind. :-)
>
> I probably am too pessimistic about this based on personal mediocre
> experiences with VoIP for international calls.
>
> ---Joel
>
>
>

If your business calls Skype to Skype, instead of POTS to POTS, and both
ends have reliable broadband, which business normally does, the directly
connected computers will provide much more secure (with 256 bit
encryption of Skype) and only 2 conversions, right in front of you, from
end to end.

If you call him on POTS, you have the odd noises of analog telephones
buzzing and clicking until it gets to the POTS point of being converted,
noise converted too, to data. On the other end, more POTS noise is
introduced between their data to analog conversion point and the desk
phone it's connected to, adding more to the distortions and noise of the
POTS link.

Some people have complained to me about their Skype sounding funny or
being distorted. Because I got them on Skype, I feel partly responsible
for this problem so I go look. The cheapest plastic shitty free
computer speakers that came with the box is 99% of the problem. A
speaker 1" across is terrible! I fixed one not long ago by simply
plugging the nice little stereo on his desk next to the computer into
the computer audio output, junking the crap speakers into his
wastebasket. He couldn't believe how great Skype sounded over a real hi
fi! My computer is the center of my home entertainment system, here.
It is permanently connected to a 300W/channel hi fi whos radio hasn't
been listened to in 10 years and a pair of 12" REAL floor speakers, not
these little plastic boxes Best Buy sells for a stereo these days, which
are CRAP! Skype sounds like you're talking over a big stereo, not a tin
can in my living room....(c;