Free net to phone software
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I had one a couple years ago that was trial you could only do 5 mins at a time. I used it will dialup and it worked pretty good so it would be great with cable. If I wanted to call home long distance from college i'd just call talk 5 mins and if I needed to talk longer just call back. I lost it but I wish I knew what it was called
I have been searching for it... net2phone might have been what it was called
I have been searching for it... net2phone might have been what it was called
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The best way for free VoIP is probably going to be to setup your own service.
Something using free software on your own computer and you talk directly to another person on his/her own computer instead of having a online server handle the connections for you.
Trouble is that both of you'd have to have the same or at least compatable software installed on both machines.
With Linux you have a software implimentation of H.323, which is a standardized protocol for doing teleconfrencing over the internet. It's called OpenH323 and you'd have the ability not only to do voice, but transfer files, do e-mail type text messaging things, and do video. You'd use something like Gnomemeeting (for Linux) or Microsoft's Netmeeting to use it.
However something like that is more designed for when you have dozens of people in a office enviroment or whatnot.
There has to be a easy simple solution for it, but I don't know. Maybe something to with Jabber and you have a plugin for it? Maybe.
Maybe use something people use for gaming called "teamspeak".
I'll look up stuff and see what I can find.
Something using free software on your own computer and you talk directly to another person on his/her own computer instead of having a online server handle the connections for you.
Trouble is that both of you'd have to have the same or at least compatable software installed on both machines.
With Linux you have a software implimentation of H.323, which is a standardized protocol for doing teleconfrencing over the internet. It's called OpenH323 and you'd have the ability not only to do voice, but transfer files, do e-mail type text messaging things, and do video. You'd use something like Gnomemeeting (for Linux) or Microsoft's Netmeeting to use it.
However something like that is more designed for when you have dozens of people in a office enviroment or whatnot.
There has to be a easy simple solution for it, but I don't know. Maybe something to with Jabber and you have a plugin for it? Maybe.
Maybe use something people use for gaming called "teamspeak".
I'll look up stuff and see what I can find.
- Jun 11, 2004
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Thanks drag. You would think that there would be a simple solution but quite honestly i believe what's happened is that all the companies like paltalk that started with excellent freebee software, have either been bought out or have simply realized that their software was so convenient that they could make money off of it and started charging. As far as H.323 and other similear things go, it's just not for me. I love my lUnix and all but the truth is i'm working from a windows environment 90% of the time and when i do want to use it, it's for little more than perhaps a five minute call to a buddy of mine across the street. So i do want something simple, somewhat useful, somewhat cool, a great novalty but nothing that's worth using energy on or giving out my cc# for. Ah well. 
Well the thing is is that it works with windows, too. I just don't know that much about it. I would like to play around with it. There are quite a few Windows clients avaible for h.323, but it's not that easy to setup.
You can probably use teamspeak, though. It's free for non-commercial use and includes server side and client side software. Works with Linux and Windows and even uses a open source audio codec: Speex (same people that made ogg vorbis).
I figure with that you can setup a server on your home machine. Open a port to the internet and instant message whoever you want to talk too. They connect to your server on your IP address and you guys can chat.
Seems the best thing I can find so far. Then beyond that it doesn't matter were you are at physically as long as you have access to the internet, then you can access your own private server at home and talk to people that way.
I've been looking around and that seems the easiest way to setup a free way to talk to somebody over the internet. People sometimes use it for businesses and such even.
You can probably use teamspeak, though. It's free for non-commercial use and includes server side and client side software. Works with Linux and Windows and even uses a open source audio codec: Speex (same people that made ogg vorbis).
I figure with that you can setup a server on your home machine. Open a port to the internet and instant message whoever you want to talk too. They connect to your server on your IP address and you guys can chat.
Seems the best thing I can find so far. Then beyond that it doesn't matter were you are at physically as long as you have access to the internet, then you can access your own private server at home and talk to people that way.
I've been looking around and that seems the easiest way to setup a free way to talk to somebody over the internet. People sometimes use it for businesses and such even.
Just use teamspeak its easy, free and small in size and requirements.
You could always use (dare I say it!) MSN Messenger if the people you want to talk to are a bit more technically challenged - I use it to talk to people in Morocco, US, and Hong Kong for nothing all the time. It works most of the time......
You could always use (dare I say it!) MSN Messenger if the people you want to talk to are a bit more technically challenged - I use it to talk to people in Morocco, US, and Hong Kong for nothing all the time. It works most of the time......
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