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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 5432879" data-attributes="member: 10177">Yeah, SKYPE is awesome. I use it as a second phone line too since I can call my gaming buddies in Canada or the US, and other places, for free. I even pay the $25 a year to be able to call any phone, SKYPE, Cell, home phone, etc...Its nice to be sitting here at my computer, realizing I need to call someone, and I don't need to go get my cell or home phone, I just open up SKYPE and call.I think I even talked to you while on SKYPE one time Tom.If you think back to when they were covering the Haiti earthquake, you may remember the news mentioning how they were using SKYPE to even get hold of whoever they were interviewing.So SKYPE is pretty dang cool.Maptools is too. Especially since about version ending in .60. So when you start you will be starting with the newest version, .71 or so, and should have very little problems with disconnecting or freezing up.  I think in all the game  I play via Maptools and SKYPE, which is 6 games per week, so about 15 hours plus, I think Maptools disconnected or crashed twice last week. But that is no big deal, you just restart and everyone re connects.But then again everyone I game with, except one, has computers less than 5 years old, with 2 or more Gigs of RAM, and DSL or Cable. Now the guy that has the 9 year old computer, yes, he has problems. Another who uses a platform like Linux, yeah he has problems too. They don't keep up well with the changing coding. I use WIN 7 and a Laptop with speakers, mic, and built in camera (never use video though). The 2 MAC users I game with have very few problems, if any. At least lately.So if your friends have relatively new computers, the last version or two of Windows, or Mac, and DSL or Cable connections, after the first 2 or 3 weeks you should start to really like using them. For those first couple of weeks you may really want to give up on it.But hey! You can always SKYPE me! I am treebore.therubylordDon't forget the period in there.Be happy to indoctrinate you!</blockquote>

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