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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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