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| Thread ID: 92561 | 2008-08-14 22:13:00 | Skype... Tell me all about it..Please | fluffydog (11346) | Press F1 |
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| 697319 | 2008-08-14 22:13:00 | Good Morning All, We have family all overseas and someone has recommended we should link up with Sykpe. I know a little about it, (Wikipaedia & talking to others) but would like to advice with what to buy camera wise and "phone/headset/speaker/micrphone wise. Also any pitfalls that you know about that we should be aware of. anything really.... we would get tall the family to do the skype thing obviously. Looking forward to hearing what you think. Cheers Grace |
fluffydog (11346) | ||
| 697320 | 2008-08-14 23:15:00 | Microsoft or Logitech make the best webcams. Any old headset will work fine, I use a Genius one which works great. If you want more than 1 person to talk at one time, you could perhaps look at a desktop mic (www.geniuseshop.com)/speakers (www.genius-europe.com), rather than a headset (www.geniuseshop.com), but they cost next to nothing anyway. You have broadband I assume? Skype will work on dial up, but quite possibly will be patchy with some delays in conversation. The genius hardware there is just an example, although I have been using their stuff for basic applications for ages and they make decent stuff for cheap. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 697321 | 2008-08-14 23:26:00 | What I heard is skype can use your PC as a relay if left on at start-up...If you have a small data cap, this could be an issue....! | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 697322 | 2008-08-15 00:05:00 | Skype NZ Herald Monday September 03, 2007 By Paul Henry As one of the pioneers in the advent of internet telephony, has risen in popularity over the last few years. Opening Pandora's Box - Skype includes the ability to send and receive files similar to other peer-to-peer (P2P) programs and services. - Because the file transfers are over a proprietary encrypted channel (similar to HTTPS) the inbound file transfers can effectively bypass security mechanisms in the same way P2P networks do. - In this manner, confidential data could potentially be sent out over a Skype encrypted channel. Dousing Firewalls Yet another disturbing aspect of Skype is its ability to tunnel though firewalls without the user ever having to write a single line of code. Some products have begun adopting the use of Skype for its firewall-piercing capability, such as the Timbuktu Pro operating system which uses a Skype tunnel via the Skype API to automatically navigate through firewalls and routers to provide remote access and control to a workstation or home PC. The tunnel is created without the need for an active Skype call. To the hacker, this convenience also creates a myriad of opportunities for abuse. Botnets are a collection of compromised zombie computers running malicious programs under a common command and control infrastructure. - Its firewall piercing capability - With more than 5,000,000 Skype users typically on line at any one time, the traffic from a botnet herder to the individual zombie computer he/she controls via Skype will simply blend in with the other "normal" internet traffic Skype-related Malware Over the past six months, two different worms/Trojans associated with Skype have emerged and been documented. - A variant of the MyTob Trojan (AKA FanBot) disguised as a copy of Skype version 1.4 was being distributed via spam email across the internet. Any email recipient who clicked on the attachment was quickly compromised. - A Skype-specific Trojan, Warezov, appears as a chat message with the text "Check up this". If clicked by the user, additional malware is downloaded to the PC, installing a keylogger and sending the same message to each person in the user's Skype address book. Skype Supernode Skype's official End-User Licence Agreement (EULA) no longer mentions supernodes, but now says merely: "4.1 Permission to utilise your computer. In order to receive the benefits provided by the Skype Software, you hereby grant permission for the Skype Software to utilise the processor and bandwidth of your computer for the limited purpose of facilitating the communication between Skype Software users. " When a computer goes into supernode mode, Skype opens up a great number of network connections over TCP (Transmission Control Protocol, part of the Internet Protocol suite). In a posting on the Skype user forum bulletin board, a user describes how his Linksys router was overwhelmed by over 1,500 TCP connections being opened in supernode mode. So even though the bandwidth needed is quite small, the effect is that internet access grinds to a halt with DNS and web timeouts. US-based web security blogger Paul Henry (MCP+I, MCSE, CCSA, CCSE, CFSA, CFSO, CISSP, CISM, CISA, ISSAP, CIFI)is Vice President of Technology, Secure Computing. Alternatives: http://www.jajah.com/ JAJAH is made for people who ... * want to call anyone, anywhere in the world at anytime for free, or at super-low rates * like to use their existing phone (mobile or landline) to make their calls * don't want to be tied to their computer via a headset JAJAH Free Global Calling ... applies to landline and mobile calls to and within the United States, Canada, China, Hong Kong and Singapore; and it applies to landline calls to and within Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, the UK, Germany, France, Italy and most other European nations. It applies when both call participants are registered JAJAH users. If someone is calling a non-JAJAH member, calls are simply subject to JAJAH's super-low rates. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 697323 | 2008-08-15 00:19:00 | Seeing this thread has been started, although it's probably in the wrong forum. What are the advantages of Skype or Voip over Windows Live Messenger. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 697324 | 2008-08-15 01:46:00 | You could use Ekiga instead. Works on windows with GTK+ runtime wiki.ekiga.org |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 697325 | 2008-08-15 06:44:00 | Hi ,Sorry if this is in the wrong forum... feel free to send it to the other one ( I don't know how sorry) our main use would be so we can see our grandkids while we are talking to them... | fluffydog (11346) | ||
| 697326 | 2008-08-15 07:29:00 | Ekiga supports webcams/capture devices - and so does Skype so no worries there | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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