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16-05-2006, 10:11 AM
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SKYPE free international calls!!
I have just discovered this thing called SKYPE! Brilliant! Just get yourself a Janet Jackson headset (4 euros where I live!) and download the SKYPE software from the SKYPE site. I think you have to have Broadband for it to work. Then you can talk to anyone with the same set up for free (assuming you pay a blanket rate for 24 hour access to the net - if you pay as you go then of course it´s not all that!). I´ve gassed for hours to my sis on the IOW and friends in London. The quality of the line is great. To hear through the headset you have to unplug any speaker system from the pc. Of course you have to be online to receive calls, but I urge you all to use it! I´m savin´a fortune on calls!! 
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16-05-2006, 10:12 AM
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Sounds like I´m on commission reading that through!
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16-05-2006, 10:20 AM
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Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
Occupation: none
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Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
Cruising area: South Coast
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The 'inner sanctum' of Boatmad have been Skyping for some time now, very good system.
Whilst in Florida earlier in the year, I was sat on me mates PC (not literally), Skyped up, and received a skype call from a mate, who was in a Jet, flying somewhere over India, he'd been given some free internet time by the airline (wireless) and had managed to get it all working with his laptop. So I was sat in FLA, he was at 37,000 feet over Asia, and we didn't pay a bean for it! 30 mins of talkin bollix about nothing. 
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16-05-2006, 10:30 AM
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That´s amazing. 
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16-05-2006, 11:01 AM
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: Thorpe Bay
Occupation: IT Director, www.lighthouseit.co.uk
Interests: Boats, Surfing & Snowboarding
Boat name: Isabella / Cool Runnings II / Bella / Sea Pup / Sea Dog / Speedy II / Bernico F3
Boat make: Colvic 35 Suncruiser / Bernico F3 / Phantom 16 / Zodiac 420 YL / RIB / Apollo 9
Engines: 2 x Perkins Sabre 225ti / Mercury Pro XS /Mercury Pro XS 115/ Tohatsu 2.5 / Mercury 25 / Mercury 50
Cruising area: Thames Estuary / River Crouch / Salcombe
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Get one of these for your house we have had one for a year been using skype for two years. http://dualphone.net/Default.aspx?ID=474
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16-05-2006, 11:19 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Jon Fuller
The 'inner sanctum' of Boatmad have been Skyping for some time now, very good system. .....
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For "inner sanctum"..read.... "gobshites who can't keep a telephone call to less than 20 minutes if their feckin' lives depended on it"... bunch of old women and gasbags... 
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16-05-2006, 11:48 AM
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: Thorpe Bay
Occupation: IT Director, www.lighthouseit.co.uk
Interests: Boats, Surfing & Snowboarding
Boat name: Isabella / Cool Runnings II / Bella / Sea Pup / Sea Dog / Speedy II / Bernico F3
Boat make: Colvic 35 Suncruiser / Bernico F3 / Phantom 16 / Zodiac 420 YL / RIB / Apollo 9
Engines: 2 x Perkins Sabre 225ti / Mercury Pro XS /Mercury Pro XS 115/ Tohatsu 2.5 / Mercury 25 / Mercury 50
Cruising area: Thames Estuary / River Crouch / Salcombe
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Thorpe Bay
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Re: SKYPE free international calls!!
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Originally posted by littlenige
I have just discovered this thing called SKYPE! Brilliant! Just get yourself a Janet Jackson headset (4 euros where I live!) and download the SKYPE software from the SKYPE site. I think you have to have Broadband for it to work. Then you can talk to anyone with the same set up for free (assuming you pay a blanket rate for 24 hour access to the net - if you pay as you go then of course it´s not all that!). I´ve gassed for hours to my sis on the IOW and friends in London. The quality of the line is great. To hear through the headset you have to unplug any speaker system from the pc. Of course you have to be online to receive calls, but I urge you all to use it! I´m savin´a fortune on calls!!
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If you dont want to stretch to the wireless one we use these at work for own own VOIP network, call quality is great and the pc speaker rings whilst you talk through the headset!
http://accessories.skype.com/item?SI...:4580&sku=CDPU
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16-05-2006, 11:54 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Quote:
Originally posted by Jono
For "inner sanctum"..read.... "gobshites who can't keep a telephone call to less than 20 minutes if their feckin' lives depended on it"... bunch of old women and gasbags...
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I Know what ya mean Jono............... sometimes these ole fkrs keep ya on the blower for hours!
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16-05-2006, 12:47 PM
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hello
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Quote:
Originally posted by Jon Fuller
The 'inner sanctum' of Boatmad have been Skyping for some time now, very good system.
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What do you have to do to qualify for being a member of the 'inner sanctum' ?
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16-05-2006, 01:02 PM
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Pay me £1000000 in used notes and I'll tell you.
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16-05-2006, 01:10 PM
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hello
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Can't use Skype anyways even if I wanted too!!!
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16-05-2006, 01:14 PM
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Location: Bournemouth
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I used SKYPE for a while and internet-2-internet calls are fantastic. Where I've used SKYPEOUT its been rubbish. It may be my ISP but I've given up on that.
mark
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16-05-2006, 01:21 PM
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I found the same.
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16-05-2006, 01:30 PM
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: Thorpe Bay
Occupation: IT Director, www.lighthouseit.co.uk
Interests: Boats, Surfing & Snowboarding
Boat name: Isabella / Cool Runnings II / Bella / Sea Pup / Sea Dog / Speedy II / Bernico F3
Boat make: Colvic 35 Suncruiser / Bernico F3 / Phantom 16 / Zodiac 420 YL / RIB / Apollo 9
Engines: 2 x Perkins Sabre 225ti / Mercury Pro XS /Mercury Pro XS 115/ Tohatsu 2.5 / Mercury 25 / Mercury 50
Cruising area: Thames Estuary / River Crouch / Salcombe
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Thorpe Bay
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Have no problems have you punched the holes in the firewall? Can u allocate QOS (fix bandwidth) to the relevant ports on your firewall?
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16-05-2006, 02:24 PM
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Senior Member
Country: Finland
Boat name: Wildfire IV
Boat make: Sleekcraft 21 exec jr.
Engines: Chevy 454
Cruising area: Turku Archipelago/ Finnish Gulf
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Re: SKYPE free international calls!!
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Originally posted by littlenige
I have just discovered this thing called SKYPE! Brilliant! Just get yourself a Janet Jackson headset (4 euros where I live!) and download the SKYPE software from the SKYPE site. I think you have to have Broadband for it to work. Then you can talk to anyone with the same set up for free (assuming you pay a blanket rate for 24 hour access to the net - if you pay as you go then of course it´s not all that!). I´ve gassed for hours to my sis on the IOW and friends in London. The quality of the line is great. To hear through the headset you have to unplug any speaker system from the pc. Of course you have to be online to receive calls, but I urge you all to use it! I´m savin´a fortune on calls!!
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Well goodmorning to you too......
Skype is 2-3 yrs old news...
I´ve gone back to msn messenger as it has the same features basically.
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16-05-2006, 02:40 PM
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: Thorpe Bay
Occupation: IT Director, www.lighthouseit.co.uk
Interests: Boats, Surfing & Snowboarding
Boat name: Isabella / Cool Runnings II / Bella / Sea Pup / Sea Dog / Speedy II / Bernico F3
Boat make: Colvic 35 Suncruiser / Bernico F3 / Phantom 16 / Zodiac 420 YL / RIB / Apollo 9
Engines: 2 x Perkins Sabre 225ti / Mercury Pro XS /Mercury Pro XS 115/ Tohatsu 2.5 / Mercury 25 / Mercury 50
Cruising area: Thames Estuary / River Crouch / Salcombe
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Video calls seem better on msn now too!
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16-05-2006, 06:41 PM
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16-05-2006, 07:24 PM
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Registered User
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Re: Re: SKYPE free international calls!!
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Originally posted by MikeyFIN
Well goodmorning to you too......
Skype is 2-3 yrs old news...
I´ve gone back to msn messenger as it has the same features basically.
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Thanks Mikey! Some of us have been livin' on the side of a mountain in Spain for the last 3 years! Trust me, the fact that water comes out of the tap is a miracle.............
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16-05-2006, 08:26 PM
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Boat make: Phantom 23
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search for user "puppiesballs" been using skype for a while now! great 
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16-05-2006, 08:27 PM
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Senior Member
Country: Finland
Boat name: Wildfire IV
Boat make: Sleekcraft 21 exec jr.
Engines: Chevy 454
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Re: Re: Re: SKYPE free international calls!!
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Originally posted by littlenige
Thanks Mikey! Some of us have been livin' on the side of a mountain in Spain for the last 3 years! Trust me, the fact that water comes out of the tap is a miracle.............
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Was there a jail there or something or why does a boater want to live in the hills not close(?) to water ?
Oh well spaniards and their fabrication skills..guess you´re right.
Im also looking to spent my later days in the Balearic region or Morocco as I feel they are freer to live than USA nowadays and cheaper as servants costs a dime an hour for example.
Seems 10-20 yrs ago USA was also my choice no1 but not with the current administrations course...hell 1994 I was really close to moving to Dade county!
I´m Glad now that I didn´t as the goofups of today won´t be anytime soon corrected.
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