gibster
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Originally posted by: bulletpr00f
SkyPe beats them both on all dimensions, price and quality!
If you don't care about emergency calls and transferring your current #, here is the trick as anandtech exclusive .. enjoy and i hope it will help you dump the useless and non-sense expensive vonage account
1. Get SkyPe unlimited linky
2. Get SkyPe In linky
3. Get SkyPe - PSTN adapter. You can get it from ebay, ebay linky or from best buy, best buy linky
Your setup cost ~ $50 and yearly recurring cost is ~$90.
P.S. You get skype pro which gives lot more stuff with 30 euros off from skypein. Eventually it comes to same yearly price (~ 90) but you end up with lot more toys.
You connect your desktop to device I mentioned on 3 and bada bing bada bang, you can make and receive skype calls via usual PSTN phones! Some devices even provide 1-800 dial in number type of capability where you call home via ur cell and then dial a certain key combination with password where a line is given through skype. Pretty sweet!
One small detail - you have to have a PC system running 24/7 for this to work.
Does a device exist that could be hooked up to the home LAN, and give you a Skype phone line, to which you could hook up regular phones?
I see these USB devices, and proprietary hardware Skype phones, but neither is particularly interesting to me, as they are too limiting.