Build this Skype server to provide 24/7 phone service through regular phone handsets in your home—and save a bundle of money in the process! One irritating feature of Skype is that it must be running on a computer for you to make and receive calls....
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Build this Skype server to provide 24/7 phone service through regular phone handsets in your home—and save a bundle of money in the process! One irritating feature of Skype is that it must be running on a computer for you to make and receive calls. That is, when your computer is off, Skype doesn't work. Moreover, when you run Skype on the computer you use day in and day out, Skype's performance (call quality, reliability and so forth) can suffer if you are doing other things that deprive it of the runtime resources it needs. My solution was to build a Skype server that provides 24/7 phone service with the minimum of hassle and fuss. By dumping your regular phone company and taking back control of your home phone wiring using a Skype server, you will have not only a phone system with nearly the same capabilities as before-indeed, in some ways better-you will also save a bundle of money! In my case, I save a little less than $700 US each year (this year, next year, and the year after... See less
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Component Cost (US) | IN-WIN BT610P.180BFU2 Black steel MicroATX computer case, 180W power supply $39.99 | BIOSTAR M7VIG400 MicroATX motherboard with AMD Duron 800 mobile CPU $69.00 | OCZ value series 512MB (2 x 256MB) 184-pin unbuffered PC 2700 DDR SDRAM $43.75 | 10GB Hard disk drive...