PC to Phone VoIP over Dial-Up

Written by Nathan Smith


So you've heard that you can use your computer to make cheap long-distance calls overrepparttar Internet. Maybe you've even tried it. Chances are though that if you've attempted VoIP calls over a dial-up connection, you've experienced intermittent quality, 'call drop-outs' and annoying speech transmission delays. The good news is that there are some quick, easy steps that you can take to dramatically improverepparttar 118350 quality of your VoIP calls over dial-up connections.

There's a lot of hype these days surrounding Internet-based voice communications (VoIP) replacing traditional telephone service. Most of this revolves around companies such as Vonage who coin themselves asrepparttar 118351 'Broadband Phone Company'. So what about those of us who don't have a broadband connection? Just because you don't have high speed Internet, doesn't mean that you can't save a fortune by using VoIP for your long-distance calls. Whilst a broadband connection will usually result in more consistent VoIP call quality, comparable results can be achieved using a dial-up connection provided some simple guidelines are followed.

Shop Around

Not all VoIP service providers support dial-up users. Companies such as Vonage bill themselves as alternatives to traditional telephone service and shy away fromrepparttar 118352 dial-up community (who are tied to those 'traditional' networks to accessrepparttar 118353 Internet). Furthermore, some service providers only support dial-up above a certain speed (e.g., 56Kbp). Two companies whose VoIP softphone applications work well over low speed connections include Callserve and Go2Call.

'Free-up' your System Resources

In order to ensurerepparttar 118354 highest call quality, close programs that are running inrepparttar 118355 'background'. For Windows users, these applications can be seen inrepparttar 118356 taskbar atrepparttar 118357 bottom right of your screen. 'Right-click'repparttar 118358 icons and close those programs that aren't critical to system security (e.g., don't close anti-virus software, firewall applications andrepparttar 118359 like).

If you're using Windows XP with user switching enabled, log off all users exceptrepparttar 118360 one that will be used to makerepparttar 118361 call. This will preventrepparttar 118362 other user identities from running software and/or using your bandwidth while you're making calls.

Getting better exposure on download sites

Written by Bob Schwartz


As a shareware download site webmaster I have some suggestions forrepparttar shareware authors out there that submit their programs to download sites.

I spend many hours a week reviewing submissions submitted to my site and cannot believe that lack of effort put in to product descriptions by some authors when they are making their PAD files. You would be surprised at allrepparttar 118349 one and 2 sentence product descriptions with misspellings and grammar errors that I have come across.

I realize that many shareware authors are from non-English speaking countries and do not have a good knowledge ofrepparttar 118350 English language but if you decide that you wish to market your products to English websites it would be a good idea to have someone with a knowledge of English to proofread your descriptions. Many visitors to download sites will click right out of your product page if they cannot understand your descriptions or find too many grammar and spelling errors.

The second and more important part of getting exposure is to provide detailed, keyword rich product descriptions. On many download sites you are competing will maybe 100's of other products that can dorepparttar 118351 same thing as your product andrepparttar 118352 better your descriptionrepparttar 118353 more aptrepparttar 118354 visitor will be to try your program. Just saying "X product isrepparttar 118355 best DVD ripper onrepparttar 118356 net, try it now" isn't going to get much attention. The visitor wants to know what makes your product better than program Y and what it can do for you.

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