In article <Xns9842C616BAD66noonehomecom@208.49.80.253>, Larry took
the hamburger meat, threw it on the grill, and I said "Oh Wow"...

> "Remove This" <spamdumpster@verizon.net> wrote in news:7szPg.2511$Se.1348
> @trndny03:
>
> > Does anyone know if my VZ cellphone will work in Barbados ?
> >
> >
> >
>
> Nope, but Barbados does have internet service either Ethernet or Wifi in
> the hotels for you to use.......so.......(c; Unfortunately, Skype
> doesn't have one of its cheap hotspots in Barbados, now called "Skype
> Zones", where Skype has made a deal for its users to use hotspots you
> have to pay for, without charge for Skype customers to use Skype. This
> service is $7.95/month and is something new for Skype. There's already
> 20,000 paid hotspots online, 2800+ in the USA. UPS Stores are all Skype
> Zone hotspots, now. Bahamas has one hotel, Aruba has 8, more are signing
> up every month as deals are made.
>
> Download Skype for free from www.skype.com and install it on your laptop
> and all the people's computers back home you want to talk to....
>
> At your hotel, connect up to the hotel's wifi any way you can....or to
> some cyber cafe they love in small countries.
>
> SKYPE 'EM FOR FREE!....anywhere on the planet the internet goes....(c;
>
> There, I said it....and probably am gonna pay for it, dearly...hee hee.
>
> There's another Skype trick which will cost you $28/YEAR.....Skype
> In...at home. Sign up for a Skype In phone number before you leave for
> Barbados, there's one in every major US city or one close to where you
> live. Tell your friends to call that number while you're gone, instead
> of trying to cellphone you across the incompatible, overpriced monsters
> cellular companies have become. In Barbados, just boot your computer
> online and boot Skype. (I like the Linksys CIT200 wireless Skype phone
> plugged into the USB port on my laptop, myself. It's base station has
> about a 300' range out on the beach by the hotel patio bar. It'll go way
> out on the beach if you get a room on the beach side and put the CIT200
> base unit on the 10th floor balcony! There, now THEY can call YOU for
> FREE from any phone back home, just dialing your Skype In phone number.
> YOU will be paying nothing to take these calls until January, 2007, when
> the price goes way up to 2.1c/minute.
>
> Calls from your Skype to any Barbados telephone, even from Barbados, is
> $US0.20/min deducted from your precharged Skype Out account (no monthly
> charges, just usage). Still MUCH cheaper than a Barbados rental
> cellphone I bet! I've never been overseas on Skype, yet, but they MAY
> charge you 20c/min to call your Skype in Barbados from your Skype In in
> the USA. I think that's the way it's supposed to work. Even then, find
> a 20c/min phone in Barbados to the states where the other folks can call
> you for free....
>
> Skype is cheap...Skype In, your own number, is $28/YEAR!.....
>
> If you just need to call the office or home from Barbados, use Skype-to-
> Skype, which is always FREE, computer to computer and forget all the rest
> of the stuff. Just set up a time schedule when both ends will be online
> and available to accept calls between you. The hotel may charge you
> internet access fees down there.....but that's cheap compared to
> international cellular phone dialing charges!
>
> Of course, we'll expect bottles of some great rums upon your return. Our
> Customs Service spies will notify us how many bottles they found in your
> luggage for us....(c; You won't be allowed back in unless you bring us
> some....

Well, as great as Skype is, it's not very useful when you're stuck in
a ditch out in the sticks. It's a good program but it's not perfect
either. Dial-up users mileage will vary. The most noticable effect
will be lag. You cut in and out so the person on the other end hears
every other word, and if the lag's bad enough, the call will drop. I
mean don't get me wrong, it's a good service, I have hardcore gaming
friends that use it. They like it. I don't ever call people long
distance. Everyone I need to talk to is a local call or on the IM or
through e-mail. IM's have voice chat as well, so if you're both on MSN
or Yahoo or AIM, you don't even need Skype. Ventrilo's another good
program for voice chat. My guild uses it in GuildWars. The only
drawback is it requires someone settng up a Vent server, which isn't
free, free to use though.

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