Not Geeky!

“Phoning cheaper, phoning for free!” The wild wild west in the digital Age. About 10 years ago I experimented with Net2Phone. I had just bought a new PC with an ISDN connection. Net2phone promised phonecalls almost for free. You could for instance phone the US for free. I tried it, and yes I could hear a voice at the other end of the line. Unfortunately no one could hear me.

Then a few years later there was Skype. Thought it was pretty good but it took me a while before I had found a friend that also had Skype. However he was always off-line when I was on-line so that didn’t work very well in real life either.

In 2006 a colleague of mine told me about this Voipstunt thing. I got my microphone out and gave it try. Too much echo and delay so I discarded this as a costsaving workable solution pretty quickly. I couldn’t really see what this nerdy colleague was so enthouisiastic about. The Phone 2 phone option that I tried the day after did work remarkably well. One hour phone conversations, long distance for 5 euro cents. Sound sound quality, no delays.

So, to cut a long story short: Last year I made a Squidoo page about this. And then I accidently deleted it. But Hurray! My Squidoo VoipStunt page, that I made last year is back online now. You can find it here.

Edwin