Telephone Troubles
I’ve been having some trouble with telephone calls of late. Specifically, Internet telephony (or VOIP). Making telephone calls from our computer gives us an economical way of staying in touch with home, but lately it has done little more than inspire me to gnaw my own toes off.
Skype is the first offender, whilst providing a featured-filled offering of services it drops the baby, all to frequently, in maintaining something more than a maddening quality of service. So I decided to try an Australian VOIP provider called Engin. The Engin package worked quite well at first but then mysteriously the provided software stopped working properly, rendering the service useless. After some digging on the web I found a piece of software called Wengophone that works with the Engin service. Let’s hope this is the end, somehow I doubt it.