This piece of software has flown under my radar and I got hot on the trail this afternoon. Like millions of consumers I am quite sick of paying extra for caller ID and three way calling on my land-line and in a quiet protest removed those features from my land line as I explore the VOIP world.
Well Skype is brought to you by the same folks who created Kazaa and it seems to be at the top of the download charts at the moment with over a million downloads in a month. The NYT has a full review of what the telecommunications industry is worried about.
I will give you a full review of Skype after I play with it for a few days. For those of you here at Geek News I will make available my contact info and ya all can call me via Skype and give it a try. [Skype] [New York Times]
I tried Skype on a dial up modem out of the US, to a dsl modem in Denmark. The transmission quality was very bad. I guess because of the dial up modem on one end. I’ll try again with a high speed on both ends. This just won’t work with dial up.