Skype or Paltalk

Kantiki · Senior Member

RE: Skype or Paltalk

dave06 · Guru

sounds like the way to go, I have a lot of overseas and interstate freinds that cost me and them a fortune in phone calls, may look in to this, that way i get to see them ageing as well!!

jimbo · Guru

I'm surprised it's taken everyone so long in getting onto it....i don't have much time for Pal talk....To many rat bags....I'm arranging to meet a family on the Murry River after Xmas through skype...

Not from Grey Nomads...I know you all live all over the country...Talking about Country...My wife and I went and seen the Movie Australia to day 4.00pm session at Sunshine (Melbourne) And I thought it was great....And I've been a critic of Nicole Kidman and i think she was Good...Bloody Good and Hugh was terrific...Recommend it.....Don't know why the Yanks have to knock it for......

Kantiki · Senior Member

Hi Dave, I thought I answered your query but as its not there today, I must have hit the wrong button. anyway, just buy a webcam from any of the usual stores. It has a built in mike and you hear through you computer speakers. I saw one in Hardley Normals catalogue for about $10 after their cash back offer.
Happy chatting

Basil Faulty · Guru

"Basil will know about this" says Dave..... Basil knows that Skype and all the VOIP phone thingys are the preferred means of communication between the various criminal elements in society because they believed that VOIP was immune to tapping or eavesdropping by those interested in stopping such activities but thats not the case.
Anyway I don't use it I have a hearing impediment and the quality of the audio makes it hard for me to use. Besides I don't want ASIO knowing that I am the Mr Big in potted tomato plant growing or that I'm going to make my own Bio Diesel and not pay tax on it.....

Kantiki · Senior Member

Lord Im thick, I just figured out what the little squares with 1 and 2 next to them on the index is. Now I know why my first post wasnt there when I looked, just sitting on page 2. Well it does take me a while to catch on.

dave06 · Guru

see, told you Basil would know!!!

Kantiki, we can still laugh at our little flopups, its what makes us human, I lost my glasses today, found them in the fridge next to the milk, so you are certainly not alone

VK3FEMT · Senior Member

As a computer geek I may be able to offer some insight into this.

Skype: Commonly used for PC to PC phone calls, you can (I believe) also make outbound calls to a terrestial PSTN network as well, but I have a feeling this capability is limited to North America.

This is just yet another VOiP network (Voice Over Internet Protocol), I once signed up for it, the software is bulky, not very nice to use (my personal thought). And really not worth the effort, see additional notes below.

Paltalk: Well, it offers chat rooms, and you have three levels of membership.
Basic - Which is free, limited video in chat room, you see around 7 seconds worth, but in private message there is no limitation.
Extreme - Costs around 70 bucks Aus a year, gives you unlimited video and cams etc etc
Theres a higher level which is a toss and not worth the money.

I think Skype may also have chat rooms, although don't quote me on that, either way 99% of chatrooms are full of drongos and perverts, or people whose sole existence revolves around the chatroom and the people in it.

Now, both of these are bandwidth killers, in that they consume copious amounts of data, if you are on wireless and paying by the meg, your going to be up for one hell of a bill at the end of the month. If your on a set plan, expect the above services to chew into your monthly meg allowance, and this is without even thinking of using or looking at webcams.
Paltalk is the worst offender, it sends/receives a lot of data even during normal use (without video/audio).

If your looking to stay in computer contact with a few people, I would strongly recommend MSN Live, or Google Talk, the later is a nice small program made by google, there are two versions, the talk and the video version. I use Talk and its great, just signup for a gmail account and download google talk and your in business.

Gmail: www.gmail.com
Google Talk: www.google.com/talk

Basil Faulty · Guru

bamphoto wrote:

either way 99% of chatrooms are full of drongos and perverts, or people whose sole existence revolves around the chatroom and the people in it.

Now aint that the truth..... Though forums tend to be a bit this way as well, like this one, full of elderly travellers....

VK3FEMT · Senior Member

Basil Faulty wrote:

Though forums tend to be a bit this way as well, like this one, full of elderly travellers....

Ah Bazza, I can deal with the age thing, thats no issue.
But chatrooms, honestly it makes watching days of our lives exciting!

Same crap over n over, you can go to a chatroom and come back to it in a year and they are still whining about the same old stuff, same old drama only thing that changes is their names now and then.

Oddly enough, chatrooms hold the miracle key to eternal life!
I've lost count of how many people on chatrooms I've seen keel over only to be reincarnated with a new name hehehehe.

Basil Faulty · Guru

bamphoto wrote:

Basil Faulty wrote:

Though forums tend to be a bit this way as well, like this one, full of elderly travellers....

Ah Bazza, I can deal with the age thing, thats no issue.
But chatrooms, honestly it makes watching days of our lives exciting!

Same crap over n over, you can go to a chatroom and come back to it in a year and they are still whining about the same old stuff, same old drama only thing that changes is their names now and then.

Oddly enough, chatrooms hold the miracle key to eternal life!
I've lost count of how many people on chatrooms I've seen keel over only to be reincarnated with a new name hehehehe.

Yeah, I never had much luck trying to convince 20 yo bimbos to meet me in chat rooms, maybe they could tel from my chat that I had a modicum of intelligence and that is not a good thing in Chat rooms.....

VK3FEMT · Senior Member

Basil Faulty wrote:
Yeah, I never had much luck trying to convince 20 yo bimbos to meet me in chat rooms

Hehehehe you deviant... Never worked for me either :p
Sad part is, most of these people in chat rooms are predominately 30+ in age carrying on like imbeciles, and really should know better.

Some words of advice I can give to anyone who ventures into chat rooms:
1. Don't let it rule your life, its text on a screen, nothing more!
2. Don't become involved in others life battles and dramas, most of the people in chatrooms are there for one reason, themselves. And they feed off the unsuspecting soul.
3. There are some in chatrooms who delight in torturing others anyway they can, and if they can't screw info out of you, they will make it up, and as they are the 'regs' what they say is gospel, such is the prevalent mentality in chatrooms.

So still interested lol?

I know a person who spends the bulk of their waking day in a chat room, and they 'fret' if they have to leave the house for the day and their room won't be open. Things are pretty stuffed when the only thing in your life that provides you with some form of satisfaction and self-importance revolve around a chat.

Granted there are people with severe disabilities who due to their disability can't leave the house, or get limited opportunity to do so, thats a different thing, its there pipeline to the outside world and social interaction.