[TriLUG] VOIP soft phone help.

[Jim Ray]

I get pretty good mileage off a Logitech WebCam with built-in mic and switch over to Logitech headset if feedback is a problem. 

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On Aug 20, 2012, at 11:21 AM, "Tim Jowers" <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh,
> 
>  I was just preparing for an interview and wanted to see what devices
> worked well with the sound and video.
> 
> :-)
> Tim
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
> 
>> Skype works great for me. Echo from two devices in bedroom sounds like
>> acoustic feedback loop that would, indeed, necessitate headset/mic.
>> 
>> Just curious: why would two devices in same room need to communicate
>> over Skype?
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
>> Behalf Of Tim Jowers
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>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] VOIP soft phone help.
>> 
>> Yeah, Skype is REALLY bad about echo when you have a call between two
>> devices in my bedroom. Skype won't work unless the talkers all use
>> headphones I think. Got me curious how well BT headsets would work in
>> the same close proximity scenario.
>> 
>> Interesting problem,
>> Tim
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
>>> 
>>> yes, multitasking by microphone rather than process.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> preemptive multitasking. You'll have to ask a Mac user group - we
>>> don't know anything about it here :-)
>>> 
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