[ale] Cable modem recommendation///SKYPE

[Drifter]

Has anybody been able to keep Skype working on Fedora?  Best I can figure 
out the problem is an incompatable video driver.  I really would like to 
get Skype working again on this box if possible.

Sean

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On Thursday, April 19, 2012 08:17:14 am Michael Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:18 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> > I have a friend using a Oomla http://www.ooma.com/products . Saw a
> > sale last
> > week for $140 on that - lifetime calling, but I think they must
> > charge monthly
> > for E911 by law.  This same friend tried the MagicJack on a PC for no
> > other use
> > and said it worked well enough, but he always felt slimy.
> 
> A colleague of mine uses Ooma and raves about it.
> 
> I use Skype dial-out (I can dial regular #'s with it), and it works
> well enough for me.   I'm on business in Belgium right now, and I use
> it to call my home phone in Atlanta on the anemic hotel wifi, and it
> works very well with voice.  It also works moderately well with video
> on a Skype-Skype call to home also.
> 
> I don't have a Jihad against Microsoft, so I'll continue to use Skype
> until a better valued option comes up, or it starts to suck.  So far
> neither have happened.
> 
> I haven't tried Google Voice from my computer to regular # yet, but I
> might try that in the next couple days.