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- r121, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Computers with phone jacks? In my day we called those "modems".
- xpsgen2man, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11The reason that skype is so popular is becuase its not as coplicated as that^^^ to set up,
1). install skype on your pc.
2). plug in microfone and speakers or skype fone.
3) talk!
-Alex - kuranda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8of course there is. Though Skype is closed software, but has an API. So an external program can check for events on skype (like somebody calling) and then ring on the phone jack. That's what all these USB-skype phones do.
- Aleksej, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Which one? Skype isn't.
- jgruber, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Skype sure isn't. Be true to your school and dump skype for Open.
SIP (which has several Open Source implementations) ATA are getting cheap. Grandstream is about $25/port for 2. So for $100 you have 4 phone extensions in your house. A little wiring and I have remotes all over the place and a conference phone! Their little ATA will register with whatever SIP provider you sign up with. I have them register locally to my Asterisk (www.asterisk.org) switch which trunks to voicepule. If you can terminate an IAX trunk (which Asterisk can) you can go to connect.voicepulse.com and get 4 inbound lines for $11/month. Outbound is rated. I don't make outbound calls from my home that much and get flooded with inbound, so for me it is a much better bargin than any other VOIP provider. I have an auto attendant pick up, have extensions, conferencing, web voicemail, and CDR right out of the box (trixbox... google it). And all those sales calls bail as soon as the recording starts! With your own switch you can pick your provider, have multiple, and dictate routing based on cost! All my toll free goes through FWD for nothing. Now I use free 411 all the time.
Full service voice is CHEAP now! - dextroz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4...he means the bios and api/driver interfaces are open standard.
- jongens, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7i hope it is open-standard...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Goodbye stationary phone!
- ionix18, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6It's nothing more than a "sound card" that has a phone jack. You can do the same with a cheap voice modem. Skype is just a buzzword really. There will be no way to make the phone ring...
- jongens, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2sorry, yes i know skype isn't, but dextroz cleared it up.
- Andy.D, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2There's a number of cool USB devices that can do the same, so you don't need to have this motherboard necessarily.
- tardpicard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2has anyone heard anything concerning an extension of the free skypeout service beyond Dec. 31? I'll be sticking with skype regardless, but this would be icing on the cake. Skypein combined with my uconnect 901 has made my AT&T account obsolete. Voicemail, caller ID, and location shifting all for a fraction of the price of AT&Ts most basic service.
- Ogopogo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1... wouldn't a modem be able to do the same thing?
No, to connect an ordinary telephone to a computer, you need an FXS interface in the computer. An FXS interface provides power (battery) and generates ring signals.
A modem does neither. Ref: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/FXO - bbeahm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Can you now plug your computer into the pre-existing phone wiring in your house (if you aren't using a land line) and "serve" all your house jacks with this VOIP?
- anthonylitz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3lol...that's what I was thinking, wouldn't a modem be able to do the same thing? what makes these new motherboards work with skype, besides the phone jack?
- xpsgen2man, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2thinking about it yes it would.
-alex - rmmcclay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1That's very cool. I love Skype. BTW, the right corner ad is the most amazing intrusion I've seen yet on a web page.
- wvstephens, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yes you can if this product does what it says. Here is my setup at my home, it is real simple I have the VOIP box plugged in to router. VOIPbox plugged into my main phone terminal on the exterior of my house with this setup it lets me use all the pre-existing phone jacks as if I had normal regular old expensive land line service. My VOIP provider uses the Grandstream VOIP adapter which is great cause it is small and fits right in my phone terminal box on the exterior of my house.
- inane69, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2While interesting, I can't see there being a big demand to have this functionality on a motherboard. Unless there is some OEM angle to it. I mean companies building VOIP boxes around Skype.
- vibez, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I hate the way skype is always mentioned instead of the term VOIP. There is a world outside skype and as jgruber just said, it is much more flexible
- srock258, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0From Article: with jacks that connect the house phone to the PC and the PC to the phone line
Why would I want to connect the PC to the phone line? I don't even have a land line anymore. Does this let me plug any old telephone into the PC and let it work with Skype purely over my IP connection? - Thisiszion, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Wow Cool
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