Skype For Our Spoken Conversations?

[Sabahattin Gucukoglu]

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Hello all,

I have been trying out Skype ( http://www.skype.com/ ) of late, and am 
finding it hard to see fault with it.  The calls are crystal clear, and 
corporate firewalls, NATs and proxies are no object to it whatsoever.  It 
uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology - that is, distributed computers on a 
network - to relay calls between endpoints with extremely low latency, 
providing exceptional immediacy of conversation, and uses 256-bit AES as 
the symetric cipher.  Does anyone else here use Skype?  If so, person-to-
person voice-over-IP chat or conferencing with up to five of us at any one 
time will be possible.  This will compare favourably with our previous 
efforts using SpeakFreely, which were aggrivated by high latency and 
mangled UDP traffic passing through different operating system-based 
routers.  There are a few things you should know, I think.  Depending upon 
the extent of your zeal and religion, these issues may not be important 
enough to warrant consideration.  In my belief, Skype Just Works (TM), and 
hence should be given serious consideration - not to on grounds of 
religious belief seems a bit illogical:
* It runs only on X86 (PC) under Windows or Linux.
* It is closed source, proprietary software.
* Linux users use QT, it is not console.
* It isn't officially supported and certified on Windows 98 or the 9X/ME 
family, even though many people are using it there.

So, yeah, check out the site, and let me know what you think.  Even though 
with my SkypeOut service (the ability to call landlines and mobiles from 
your Skype client) the cost to such places as the US is now ridiculously 
low, it would be very benefitial if we all used Skype since costs would 
then be absolutely nothing.

Cheers,
Sabahattin

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Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Phone: +44 20 7,502-1615
Mobile: +44 7986 053399
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