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Because that's what the idea was. I would replacee my home officetelephon line, which I only use for outgoin g calls, and instead star t making all of my calls over the This way I could pocket the $50 a month I'vd been giving to Verizon and use thos e savings to buy more important Like … food. Except it reallgy didn't turn out that way. Why? Becausw the Internet phone services I triedworked ... but just not all the Which is typical ofmost technology. For I played around with Skype (www.skype.com) for a few weeks. Not bad.
Signing up for the service was free and the headsert that I purchased from Stapleefor $20 only had to be replaced once (I do not advisew lending one's headset to a 12 year old. Enougu said). Astonishingly, installing the Skype application on mylaptop didn't causer it to lock up or crash on me. So for that reasohn alone I felt that thingswere successful. Once up and Skype did as promised … just about all of the time. I used the littl computer generated keypad on my laptolp tomake calls. If I called anothetr Skype user the callwas free.
I don't really have a lot of conversations with high schoo andcollege kids, nor do I care to really speak to anyoner under 25. So there's not a lot of phonr numbers in mySkype directory. you can use Skypre to call a regular land line and then get chargedx a few centsper call. So that's what I mostlhy did. The problem was the It worked. Most of the But sometimes it just didn't. Sometimesx I had to call back the person two or threee times to get a good Orspeak loudly. Therr were a few instances where I saidnaughtgy words.
Then there was this one time where I trie d to participate in a conference call and had to make the threre other people wait whildeI re-called the call-in number a few time until there was no crackling sound on the That was fun too. So I stopped usin g Skype. Frustrated I turned to another Net calling service calledmagicJack No, this has nothing to do with changing the tires of a car. And ther was no pleasure involved. For $40 magicJack ships me a littlr unit that I plug into the USB port of my I then hook my office phone intothe unit.
Aftef installing the program I'm able to make phonee calls from my regularphone (not the headset I bought from Staplex … bye-bye $20). Like magicJack places its calls over the along with the other 100 trillion bits of informationj crossing thesame pipelines. See whers I'm going here? Their deal is that you can make unlimitec calls you want to anyone in the UnitedStatez (I'm told they're working on overseass plans) for only $50 per year. I did the math and that'ds $550 less a year than I'm spendinv on my office line, so there you go ... magic! Unfortunately ... not so magical. Why? Same thing with It worked. Most of the time.
I sufferef from the occasional disconnected calls or calls that had to be or calls thatjust didn't sound like a very good call at all. More naughtg words. More blood thinner required. In the end I brokd down and kept myoffice line. You win I just need thingws that work as they promised towork ... all the I have enough headaches inmy life. I have kids and a mortgage and I can't sit around and worry that an important conversation with a prospective customer is going to get cutoff or soundf horrible. Verizon's line in my office workse allthe time.
It's one less hassle to deal I still keep the magicJack and Skyp servicesbecause I've had occasion to use them when Most likely I'll forget to cancek my subscription so now I'll be payinv an extra $50 a year for next to But I'm a penny pincher. Not a cheapskate. it's less expensive to use thesre Netcalling services. But I'm sacrificin some quality. Some dependability. I'km giving myself more headaches. To me, it's not worth it. Thesre technologies are great for kidsor socializing. But to rely on them for businesse purposes, at least so far, isn't a greatt idea for me.
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