> At 06:53 PM 6/29/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>>Re: VOIP and Satellite:
>>
>>
>>My daughter is on a mission trip in China this summer and calls us via
>> VOIP
>>from her computer to our POTS phone. I assume the link is goinig over a
>>satellite (even if it isn't its still about 12,000 miles+). The latency
>> is
>>very noticable, and irritating, but we are more than willing to put up
>> with
>>it to talk with her.
>>
>>Bob Ammerman
>>RAm Systems
>
> Bob, what's involved with getting that up and running? I just got the cell
> phone bill from my last trip to China, and at a rate exceeding >$10K/year
> it
> would be a bit financially painful to sustain that for a relatively long
> duration... and  my family isn't as comfortable with e-mail as I am, so
> something that interacts with POTS at this end would be very nice.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..."            "The Journey is the
> reward"


I use http://www.sipphone.com . I have an "ethernet phone" here at work,
an ATA adapter at home that connects between ethernet and POTS phone
wiring, and "The Gizmo Project" on my linux laptop.

Harold


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