Free Calls With Skype - Comments Page 2

I am very surprised that you do not mention any security concerns in this article. See what I have collected from various Internet sources in my own
Skype recommendations page at: http://www.boku.ac.at/zid-skype.html?&L=1

For home users who are behind a firewalled broadband router, voice quality improves dramatically, if both the parties open a port (port forwarding) and get their Skype to listen on it.

Some of us working in China get very frustrated when we punch in skype.com and get re-routed to an all-Chinese Web site, then would have to download a quite-possibly tampered version of SKYPE. One way to get around this is go to http://www.skype.com/useskype/ Usually, one way to go around this kind of situation, as it also happens with MSN and others, is to find a sub-link inside the destination site. The above link, "low per-minute rates" http://www.skype.com/products/skypeout/rates/all_rates.html , Was the only one that worked for me. Great job, Bob!

EDITOR'S NOTE: Wow, I knew China was blocking certain search engines, but I didn't know they were redirecting sites like that. No way I would recommend downloading a "Beijing approved" version of anything!

For free PC to PC calls and calls to land lines even cheaper than Skype, I use Freecall (freecall.com) and the quality is excellent.

And then there's Magicjack: land line to land line via caller's Magicjack device linked to his land line phone and his PC. Modest annual cost and free calling.

I read your infor and love it. Keep up the good work. Bob, I have a HP Photosmart D7360 printer. A piece of paper got hung in it and that has happened a lot of times but I always did get the piece out. This time, I can't see a piece at all, but the big piece that I did get out does have a piece missing so it is in there someplace but where I can't find. It says, Carriage jam/Clear Jam, and then press OK to continue. I know how to take the back off and now I want to take the printer apart but it looks like it is rivited together. Where is that paper at? No one else can see a piece of paper in it either. Please help. GP

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