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Ken Cooke
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Location: Riverside, CA
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Mood: Pole Line Road postponed due to injury
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Skype?
Do any Nomads here use Skype for making phone calls? I am buying a cordless phone that will interface with my Personal VoIP Gateway "Teller Box" into
my computers sound card. I'm looking for a way to make inexpensive phone calls to Mexico and Colombia.
I will let you know if my Teller Box works...
http://www.tommade.com
[Edited on 1-17-2008 by Ken Cooke]
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Natalie Ann
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Ken, I regularly use Skype to phone Mexico and other locations around the world. I am very pleased with it.... quality is better than my cell phone.
If I call computer to computer (or wireless phone to computer) the cost is free. When I call a land line in Mexico (or the US from Mexico) the cost
is 2.1 cents per minute. Skype has an inexpensive wireless phone available.... create a numeric phone number for it (any area code you choose) and
you can place and receive calls free or at Skype's low prices. By using the area code of your friend in Colombia, she would be able to phone you for
free (not sure how that would affect your outgong calls).
Do I sound like a Skype ad? Perhaps. But I am really pleased with their services - they've saved me some good money.
Nena
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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vandenberg
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Location: Nopolo
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I'm with Natalie.
Have been using Skype here in Loreto for years and call all over the world. Free to other PC's and minimal charges to landlines. Never figured why
everyone doesn't sign up.
With DSL of course.
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Acuity
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Location: Comox, BC, and Todos Santos
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I am a great fan - it lets me keep in touch with my family in the UK and Canada. PC to PC (or Mac:biggrin quality is usually better then a phone call.
You just have to tell your phone friends that when they get a call from area code 0123 456...or something similar, it is for real.
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wornout
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Registered: 10-24-2004
Location: San Felipe, Baja California
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Bajalou and I have used it here in San Felipe every since our pal Hose A. told us about it years ago. We have a lot of friends here using it too.
We keep in touch during the summer when we are out of here traveling.
It works anywhere you have a connection faster than 36k which covers dial-up too. Computer to Computer is free, Computer to land line cost different
amounts, all pretty low, depending on the country you are calling. I pay to have a dial-in number in the 760 area code. It works on satellite
connections but there is a delay. Personally I don't understand why anybody pays a monthly service charge for any of those other VOIP services.
This Space Available, E-Mail Me If Interested.
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Cypress
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Skype! Why go any other way? Is there something better?
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fdt
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| Quote: | Originally posted by wornout
Bajalou and I have used it here in San Felipe every since our pal Hose A. told us about it years ago. |
My first ever call was to Gene, HoseA. To this day we have Skype with skype in and skype out phone. Get it Ken
A well informed Baja California traveler is a smart Baja California traveler!
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Ken Cooke
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Location: Riverside, CA
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fdt
| Quote: | Originally posted by wornout
Bajalou and I have used it here in San Felipe every since our pal Hose A. told us about it years ago. |
My first ever call was to Gene, HoseA. To this day we have Skype with skype in and skype out phone. Get it Ken |
My handicap has not ever using it before. I will try to set it up this weekend once I buy my cordless phone. This morning, I set up my account.
I'll let you know if I can get it to work or not.
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stanburn
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Location: Santiago, Colima, MX
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I use it with the Netgear cordless Skype phone. It works great. Both the Skype In number and our local Telmex number ring on it.
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Cooke
| Quote: | Originally posted by fdt
| Quote: | Originally posted by wornout
Bajalou and I have used it here in San Felipe every since our pal Hose A. told us about it years ago. |
My first ever call was to Gene, HoseA. To this day we have Skype with skype in and skype out phone. Get it Ken |
My handicap has not ever using it before. I will try to set it up this weekend once I buy my cordless phone. This morning, I set up my account.
I'll let you know if I can get it to work or not. |
Ken,
You don't need a special phone, just a headset to plug into your computer.
CaboRon
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juangrandebigjohn
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Ken,Skype works fine!
| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Cooke
Do any Nomads here use Skype for making phone calls? I am buying a cordless phone that will interface with my Personal VoIP Gateway "Teller Box" into
my computers sound card. I'm looking for a way to make inexpensive phone calls to Mexico and Colombia. Ken,Just got Skype today and made first three
phone callsto States,Skype site a little tough to navigate initially,got a cheap headset for 20pesos in Mandadero segundo that is adequate.And
yeah,still want to go to Colombia.Bigjohn
I will let you know if my Teller Box works...
http://www.tommade.com
[Edited on 1-17-2008 by Ken Cooke] |
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rpleger
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SKYPE works for me in Mulegé.
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Richard on the Hill
*ABROAD*, adj. At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to
be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
-- Ambrose Bierce, _The Enlarged Devil\'s Dictionary_
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bill erhardt
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Location: Loreto, BCS
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Skype Calls to Mexico
The Skype rate for landline calls to the States and many other countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia is 2.1 US cents per minute, but landline
calls to Mexico are 10 cents per minute.
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bill erhardt
The Skype rate for landline calls to the States and many other countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia is 2.1 US cents per minute, but landline
calls to Mexico are 10 cents per minute. |
Do you mean FROM the states to Mexico ? Is more expensive that from Mexico to the states?
CaboRon
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bajalou
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Where you call from is not important - just the country you are calling. The rates vary quite a bit by country.
Go to http://www.skype.com/prices/callrates/ and check out the rates for yourself.
No Bad Days
\"Never argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference\"
\"The trouble with doing nothing is - how do I know when I\'m done?\"
Nomad Baja Interactive map
And in the San Felipe area - check out Valle Chico area |
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bill erhardt
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Ron..... Lou is right. It is the country that you call that determines the cost of a Skype call. And, within a country calls to cellphones may be
more expensive depending on the arrangement Skype strikes with the providers there. When my son was in France calls to him on his cellphone there
were around 40 cents per minute although landline calls were at the 2+cent rate. Skype to Skype calls are free regardless of where the parties are.
[Edited on 1-18-2008 by bill erhardt]
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Al G
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Location: Todos Santos/Full time for now...
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I may have made a mistake...I know, I know, what's New...
I went with Magic Jack...because of a regular wireless hand set and only $28 a year, to call the states. I will get a cell in Todos Santos for local
calls. Cost? Since I will be there full time, calling Mexico was not important...until I realized, I may want to call Mulege...Asuncion etc... With
this many Nomads using Skype...that means most people in Baja are most likely using Skype...Hmmmm. I am so use to calling anywhere in US with My cell,
I was not thinking about Baja. Does any one know the cell costs to call...say Mulege from T.S.???
What is Skype's annual cost?
Albert G
Remember, if you haven\'t got a smile on your face and laughter in your heart, then you are just a sour old fart!....
The most precious thing we have is life, yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.
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bill erhardt
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Al.... No annual cost. You just pay by the minute, and calls to others with Skype are free.
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Bajajorge
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There are Skype phones that work where ever there is WiFi no computer needed. Call anywhere in the world for 1-2 cents a minute. I've got one by
Linksys and it works just fine. It's about the size of a cell phone.
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vandenberg
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Registered: 6-21-2005
Location: Nopolo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajajorge
There are Skype phones that work where ever there is WiFi no computer needed. Call anywhere in the world for 1-2 cents a minute. I've got one by
Linksys and it works just fine. It's about the size of a cell phone. |
Been using Skype for years, but this is a new one on me.
Where did you get that unit ? Never seen one.
Best Buy, Circuit City or Linksys direct ?
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