[thelist] VOIP / Project Question

[Peter Brunone (EasyListBox.com)]

- Will VOIP work? I think it should, although the latency may be bad.

   FWIW, I have a friend who is currently in Tokyo, and I call him at his 301 area code Vonage number with no noticeable delay at all.

 From: "Jeff Wilhelm" thelist at summit7solutions.com

This is a little off-topic, but I need some feedback, so I hope nobody
minds. It's more on-topic than most of our Friday conversations, so here it
goes:

OK, so I'm sitting here working and the president of the company calls me
and needs a solution within a week to this. As he's talking I'm thinking
"this isn't hard at all," but then we get to the kicker.

So he wants me to buy four laptops, and get VOIP service for each one. You
know, like Vonage's soft-phone for example, so calls can be placed from the
laptop and auto-dialing can be done on the desktop, and all that. Not so
hard. I have Vonage at home, and while I have never used the soft-phone, it
sounds doable. Then he tells me that the four laptops are going to be
shipped to Kosovo and the calls will be placed to / from there.

So I have a few questions:
- Will the laptops work overseas or will I need special plugs?
- Will VOIP work? I think it should, although the latency may be bad.
- Is there any way to get JUST the SoftPhone from Vonage? I called and they
couldn't answer that for me. I know you can order the regular service (comes
with an ATA for home use) and then get the SoftPhone as an add-on, but that
only gives you 500-minutes per month of SoftPhone usage.
- Anyone have any other feedback?

Thanks a lot,
Jeff

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