On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 22:58 +0300, Peter wrote: > There is no hybrid in voip/voip connections. The echo is due to earphone > audio getting into the microphone (with or without room echo and > reverberation). The correspondents very often use computers as > speakerphones (without the speakerphone mutex circuit). Actually that depends on what equipment you use. In my case I have an ATA that has a standard telephony jack and an ethernet jack, so there is most certainly a 2W/4W equivalent type of conversion going on. That said, I've never had echo issues with this setup. Echo issues usually are reserved for lower quality VOIP providers or hardware. TTYL ----------------------------- Herbert's PIC Stuff: http://repatch.dyndns.org:8383/pic_stuff/ -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist