[WEB4LIB] Re: Long distance calls over net

[Floyd Ingram]

Headphone works better than a regular mic...speak through one part and get
feedback clearly and directly into your ear.

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: web4lib at webjunction.org
>[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of TMGB
>Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 10:01 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Long distance calls over net
>
>
>There was an article that just came out Monday on ZDNET concerning the
>telephone companies and NetPhones.
>The article at ZDNET's Anchor Desk: "Why Free Net Phone Calls Keep
>Telcos Up at Night ( And How They Plan to Quash Them)"
>
>http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2585733,00.html
>
>>From a link in the above article you can go to a PC Magazine article
>that reviews 7 telephony solutions:
>
>http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2574032,00.html
>
>PC Magazine's two top rated products were dialpad.com and MS NetMeeting
>3.0.  I had already tried dialpad before knowing of this article.  I
>went on the net and called my office phone.  Forgetting my limited sound
>engineering background, I answered using the speaker phone and in effect
>had a digital echoplex for those that remember or know what an echoplex
>is.  The quality of sound was very good although I could hear a definite
>lag time from the moment I spoke into my sound card microphone and when
>it came back out on the telephone.  I then called a friend of mine
>toward the eastern part of North Carolina and it didn't matter if I used
>speakers or headphone on my end, he said he could hear himself echo back
>through the phone.  The microphone on my end may have been set a little
>too sensitive.  This is something you can experiment with in your own
>library between offices.  Dialpad is free, or at least was the last time
>I used it, and runs in a java applet on your PC.
>
>Also reviewed by PC Magazine was Internet Phone Release 5, Net2Phone,
>PhoneFree, Speak Freely 7.1, and WebPhone.
>
>Thomas
>
>
>Lin Light wrote:
>>
>> I had a staff person bring up an interesting idea.  We are on the Dynix
>> system and use TeleCircII to contact patrons with information about
>> thier overdues, holds, etc,.  We have some patrons that we must call
>> that are long distance.  Well, Dwayne, the person who makes the calls,
>> asked if we could try to use the NET to make the long distance calls.
>> Equipment is cheap, and he uses it at home.  What's the thought on this?
>>
>> ----
>> Lin Light
>> Head of
>> Technical Services/Automation
>> Herrick District Library
>> 300 S. River Ave.
>> Holland, MI 49423
>> llight at lakeland.lib.mi.us
>> Voice-616.355.3727
>> Fax-616.355.1426
>
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