how can my computer emulate a telephone using telephone modem to make/recieve calls.
NOT VOIP, just analog phone line(s) routed to usb headset with keyboard and mouse to dial.
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A modem, whether it’s an old school dialup version or high-speed DSL, takes digital information and packages it into a signal that can travel over phone lines. Voip stands for voice over IP, so if you use your computer to make calls to another computer, that is voip. If you use your computer to make calls to a landline phone number, that is also voip. If you use your phone to make calls to any other phone via a voip internet phone adapter, that is voip, as well.
The difference is in how much you’ll pay, what quality you can expect, and what extra equipment you need. For PC-to-PC calls, both parties need a headset and a softphone program. There are many different versions; some are free, like Skype and GoogleTalk, while others may come with your voip calling package or are available as an add-on.
If you want to make calls from your PC to regular phone numbers and have a phone number other people can call in to, you’ll probably end up paying a fee for that, even with services like Skype.
Call quality is generally best with voip service providers, as opposed to free services, and there are also a wider selection of available features with paid services.
Regardless of how you choose to use your virtual phone, your internet connection has to be a minimum or 90 kbps in both directions, which means that dialup won’t work for making phone calls over the internet. IM, however, works just fine.
sardogwill,
I believe the original poster was explicit in requesting info on non-VOIP options, i.e., using a PC application to place a call over the POTS via the computer’s modem. That is not VOIP because there’s no “IP” involved – it’s just an analog phone call over a land line with the computer acting as a telephone handset.
This might seem retro, but there any number of good reasons to do this, the most important being security, reliability and bandwidth convservation. In my case, I’ll be doing a class via WebEx using an InterCall conference for the audio. I want to use a copper land line for that call – rather than my home phone line, which IS voip – so that I don’t consume network bandwidth needed for the presentation (and for concurrent demos on a remote VM). Also, I know the copper line will aleways be “up” no matter what happens at my ISP.
There used to be plenty of these applications around, but with the rise of VOIP they seem to have disappeared. Can anyone suggest any free or low-cost options?