Marvel wrote:
> "Scott Reynolds" <scottreyn@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:444c06c9$0$22301$ed362ca5@nr1.newsreader.com...
>> Rafael Caetano wrote:
>>> John R. Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:
>>>> Just spent half an hour on the phone to England. Perfect! No time-lag, 
>>>> no
>>>> problems. Easy to sign up and buy credit. The regular phone companies 
>>>> must
>>>> be having kittens!
>>>>
>>> My family's been calling me from Brazil with Skype and there *is* an
>>> annoying time lag, and often one of the sides gets mute.
>> Hmmm. That sounds like what I'm experiencing.
>>
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>> Scott Reynolds                              scottreyn@gmail.com
> 
> I have had good luck with net2phone and vonnage.
> I am still researching skype. 

Thanks for the tips. I may try those two if I strike out with Skype. 
net2phone's rates seem a tad higher than Skype, but if it works better 
that's still plenty cheap.

As for vonnage, don't you need to buy special equipment?

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Scott Reynolds                              scottreyn@gmail.com