Chris Yu

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since March 20, 2005

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March 20, 2005, on Voice Over IP telephone service:
Since you've already signed up for Packet8, you don't really need to pay for SkypeOut calls from hotels. You can use the simultaneous ring feature and their Free World Dialup account to make calls. In short: 1. Sign up for free world dialup (http://www.pulver.com/fwd) which is free 2. Get a softphone (X-Lite or Pulver Communicator are free) and log on 3. Go the packet8 web site, log on, and change your 'call forwarding' number to the destination that you want to reach 4. From the softphone call your own Packet8 number using the syntax **898-1-617-xxx-xxxx (where 1-617-xxx-xxxx is your packet8 number) voila the call is forwarded. Just don't forget to reset the Packet8 website after the call's been dialed. Otherwise that person will get all your calls. Of course, I just tried my softphone and it looks like the FWD-packet8 gateway is working intermittently right now.