Internet telephone - without putting the pc on - Anyone got experience with this, can you recommend it?

[MmeLindt]

We are moving to Switzerland soon and the telephone calls to UK are quite expensive.

I have been looking into internet calls, where you use a normal telephone but over the internet so that you don't have to put the computer on every time you want to make a call.

Does anyone have this? Do you find you have problems with it?

[MmeLindt]

Anygeek out there?

[MmeLindt]

Where are all the geeks tonight? Noone about who knows about this?

[TheDuchessOfNorksBride]

the easiest and best way to do this is to purchase and FXS/FXO converter box. This lets you plug a normal telephone into a box that is connected to your ADSL (and your phone line for backup if your internet connection goes down).

These boxes cost

[MmeLindt]

Thanks for the info. I could not find vopitalk but found a couple of Swiss companies that offer internet telephones. I will check it out when I go down there this week.

[tribpot]

MmeLindt - I've got a number of friends in Switzerland all of whom are ex-pats and thus likely to need to make international calls too. I can ask them for their best buys?

[MmeLindt]

Oh, Tripot, that would be fab.

We are moving to Geneva in a month and will be calling Germany and UK a lot.

Perhaps you could ask them about recommendations for internet and mobile providers too, if that is not too much to much to ask? The BT equivalent does not seem to have a unlimited broadband, it costs over SFR 2 an hour to surf the net.

DH said, "Good, you can't afford to MN then"

[tribpot]

Will do although I warn you, they all work for one of the big telcos so are likely to say "that's the best one, honest!"

Will let you know - if you want to email me, it's tribunicia underscore postestas at hotmail dot com.

[MmeLindt]

Cheers. I will email you.

[MmeLindt]

Help, Tripot. Email keeps coming back!

An underscore is one of these _ isn't it?

[MmeLindt]

Or failing that, could you email me

kindersurprise at t-online dot de

Thanks

[TheDuchessOfNorksBride]

damn spooling.

it should be voiptalk.org

[tribpot]

Will do - I see I've managed to spell my own ludicrously complicated email address wrong, so that's what the problem is DOH.

[TheDuchessOfNorksBride]

If you're having trouble with getting decent internet connectivity you could consider become a fonero.

www.fon.com is a community wireless project. I see there are lots of nodes in switzerland.