The D-Link DPH-50U Skype USB Phone Adapter is now available at $6.79 after a $10 mail in rebate at NewEgg.com.
Original Price: $16.79
Mail In Rebate: $10.00
Final Price: $6.79 (Exp 11/30/2008)
This is a time sensitive deal and will not be available for long.
We just started a micro voip news/blog post aggregator to follow major and reputed voip related blogs on the internet. The aggregator will update itself on a regular basis, multiple times a day and post the latest blog posts.
We are following a few blogs now, and we will keep adding to our list. If there is a favorite voip blog or news source you want us to follow, please let us know.
To make Skype calls using your regular phone, all you need is a D-Link DPH-50U Skype USB Phone Adapter.
This adapter will let you use both your land line (if you have one) and Skype from the same phone.
Plug in the usb adapter to your pc/laptop’s usb port. The adapter has two RJ-11 ports, one port where you plug in your regular phone line that come from the wall and the other one goes out to your phone.
If you have a Voip Services Like Vonage or Lingo you can use both Vonage and Skype in the same way too. The line from you Vonage or any other Voip adapter will go into one RJ-11 port.
Making Calls
To dial as a regular phone you just use the phone as normal. Dial the out bound number as it is.
To make a SkypeOut call,
a) Dial with the Skype application interface on your PC
OR
b) Dial “##” to enter Skype mode, then the outbound number “1-888-666-1212″ and then “*” to make the call. Once you do this it switches to Skype mode and dials out using your SkypeOut account.
Receiving Calls
Taking calls is easy too, though there is nothing for you do other than picking up the phone and talk. If its a Skype call, the VOIP LED on the adapter will be lit and also your Skype will pop up on your PC screen.
Per the recently released Keynote Systems VoIP quality report, Verizon Voicewing did pretty good as a voip service provider.
Verizon Voicewing came in second on the Voice Quality list and third on the reliability list. In both the lists AT&T Landline came in the top three position. We are assuming that AT&T that was featured in the list is the regular phone service provided by AT&T over land lines and not the AT&T Callvantage voip service.
If our assumption is correct, that will put Verizon Voicewing voip service, in the top two positions of both the audio quality list and the reliability list, which is pretty remarkable.
Keynote Systems placed automatic calls from corporate apartments using residential VoIP services and network services used by a typical residential customer to measure Voip quality and Voice quality. The study compared the relative performance of regular analog service versus VoIP services.
