I've played with making phone calls over the Internet. I was calling
regular phones from my PC. It will work with a dial-up, but it was much
better with DSL. The speed of the PC and the quality of the sound card
also make a difference. A Sound Blaster Live! is good. I had a 700MHz
CPU at the time; that was good. Oh, I was doing this under Win98SE. I
forget what the software is called. It used to be free, but I think
they've started charging.
I know a guy that would call Pakistan the same way.
Now, I would start with Linux because a program running under Linux is
more likely to be standards-based. Try using it to call regular phones if
possible, then graduate to PC-to-PC connections, maybe between two Linux
PC's. Then, try to connect with a Windows PC. If you start with Windows,
you're more likely to have a problem on the Linux side (just the way
Micro$oft would want it to be).
I'm starting to get interested in VoIP. I've been doing some Google
searches and such. It seems that the VoIP standard is H.323 and that
Microsoft Netmeeting supports this standard. This means, I presume,
that one could do audio and/or video conferencing with a NetMeeting user
from Linux as long as your Linux software supported the proper standard,
like, say, Gnomemeeting. Is this true, in anyone's experience?
Has anyone played around with audio (VoIP) and/or A/V conferencing? Any
experiences, suggestions, URLs, etc? Any guidance is appreciated.
Google searches aren't being overly helpful and I wanted to see if
anyone had suggestions for software, etc. that they've had experience
with.
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