Best Voip Service

I would like to have a VoIP service provider. What is the best option skype, phone power, Google phone, etc.?.

I used Skype for over 3 years now. It works very well for me. My Borther New Mexico and I (in Canada) often talk with Skype and find his voice very good quality. But for some reason other people do not seem to share our experience itself.
Skype / minute rates are not the cheapest. But their plan unlimited U.S. and Canada for $ 2.95/month is a bargain.

Google Talk also works very well for me. But Google Talk is mainly for PC to PC calls for free, like the appeal of Skype PC to PC. Google Talk works on a dial-up too. Thus, for some people, still stuck on dial-up, which is a viable option. It is a service that connects to Google Talk landlines. This is called GTalk2voip.com

Another solution is Efonica VoIP PC. Their PER / minute rates are slightly cheaper than Skype.

Gizmo5 is a competitor of Skype at rates very similar features.

For my primary residential phone system I use my own customizable Linksys SPA-2102-NA VOIP adapter and configure it to work with pay-as-you-go and BYOD (bring your own camera) VoIP services as CallCentric , InPhonex, and Les.net Voip.ms. But doing this takes a little more know-how, which does not seem to appeal to most people.

Skype is the best because it is by far the only VoIP provider that uses a protocol rathern peer-to-peer to a client-server protocol used by most standard suppliers. See http://virtualphonesystem.wordpress.com/ for more information. Report Abuse

It depends on what you use it, how it connects to the Internet, how are you willing to pay, and if you want to work with all phones in your home

If you simply want to have a voice chat, and you just want to get a computer to computer, then Skype will work well for this, but Skype is more of a VoIP messenger, then it is a Providores VoIP phone, even thought it does have the features of VoIP phone, and you can call mobile and landline phones, you have to do all the talking through a computer microphone and listen through your high- computer speakers (or use one of these helmets computer), or you can get one of these third party USB RJ-11 adapters to connect a phone, but the directions to configure it are very vague, and they do not discuss how to connect to a landline (but it is also easy to just connect the adapter to the wall after removing the first PID), so it's not really a reliable telephone connection, calls may lower because of computer problems or problems of access to the Internet, too, the computer and Skype should work all the time in order to make and receive calls, and settings on the computer can be difficult to configure

If you want to call a really cheap price, you can get a Magic Jack, and based on what I heard from some people, it is plug and play, and all drivers are included on the card itself ( I'm not sure about this, as I have never used), they do not tell you how to connect all the phones around you home, and they tell you to connect a phone directly to the power magic, but all you need to do is unplug your VIN (just disconnect the phone jack thing in the box), then connect the Magic Jack into the wall outlet closest available (if there is a telephone connected to outlet, you can get a phone jack splitter so you can connect the two) and all phones should have a tone, I heard complaints about Magic Jack, but I think most of complaint.