I have only just started taking an interest in Voip. I have been looking
through this newsgroup to pick up some tips. I'm thinking maybe voip is the
way to go when I'm abroad on holiday. last year I was paying £1.10p pm to
call home from the states. I am going out again in the near future. I will
be taking my laptop and connecting via the so called high speed internet
access they have in hotels in the States.Can someone recommend a good voip
provider that will allow me to ring home to a UK landline (not PC). I
Presumeably I will need some kind of usb device (handset) as well. Any
recommendations for that as well. Finally is there anything else that I will
need?
Many thanks
Dave

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DB wrote:
|| I have only just started taking an interest in Voip. I have been
|| looking through this newsgroup to pick up some tips. I'm thinking
|| maybe voip is the way to go when I'm abroad on holiday. last year I
|| was paying £1.10p pm to call home from the states. I am going out
|| again in the near future. I will be taking my laptop and connecting
|| via the so called high speed internet access they have in hotels in
|| the States.Can someone recommend a good voip provider that will
|| allow me to ring home to a UK landline (not PC). I Presumeably I
|| will need some kind of usb device (handset) as well. Any
|| recommendations for that as well. Finally is there anything else
|| that I will need?
|| Many thanks
|| Dave

You could well find that Skype is the one to use - it navigates firewalls
much better than SIP.

That said, if you pick a SIP provider that offers a STUN server, you could
be OK.

Cyberphone K works well as a USB phone with either Skype or X-lite soft
phone.

Why not also look at Voipstunt's softphone? ATM calls to UK are free.

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