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On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:51:27 +0100 tom wrote: > Skype degrades your service, both deliberately (to make you pay for > upgrade) and by design - all Skype calls go through Skype so there's > always extra hops - if I talk to the bloke next door on Skype it > takes me all the way to their servers and back. > If I go SIP:blokenext door I go the a router in the exchange and > back again, and the service is as good as it can get. > If you start with Skype you will probably be stuck with them forever > as it will never be 'convenient ' to change - not a good move for you > but more money in the bank for Skype -which was built on free > software to start with! > Tom te tom te tom We're using Skype for convenience at the moment. Nobody here does Skype -> RealPhone or vice-versa, only Skype->Skype, so adding a SIP system to enhance/supplant/replace our existing "RealPhones" probably won't affect our current Skype usage. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html