Webster, Yes I have tried Digiphone. I was one of the first 50 or so people that had a released copy. I worked extensively with the developers to fix several bugs before the release of 1.03. I would say that I know the product well.
When you start Digiphone, you register with their server. It stores your email address and your current IP. When someone calls you thier client queries the server using your email address, it supplies your current IP. Only then can you connect. Of course this is done in the background so the user is not aware of it. They had to do this because their original scheme of "direct connection technology" using a finger query of your ISP flat didn't work.
The only list of people available with digiphone is a web based list of registered users. You cannot call directly from theis page, but have to go to your client and input their email address. There is no way to tell if they are online until they accept your call.
Webster, Please do your homework. NONE of the current net phones sends voice packets through a server during a voice connection. They route them just the same as any other data using packet switching from one IP address to the other...period. The only difference is that they use UDP with RTP implimented at the application layer. I know this for a fact.
IN fact, Calls can be made without the neccessity of ever contacting the online directory server. All of the apps enable calling by directly entering the IP address of the person you want to call.
Digiphone has been a loser from day one. It never worked at all for the vast majority of the people that bought it. It has lousy sound quality, the interface is of the "stone axes and bone knives" vintage.
It has never offered the multiple features including data conferencing and latel, video, that most of the current apps do. Keep in mind that people like IBM, Intel, and Microsoft are giving their products away.
How can anyone realistically beleive that a product like Digiphone has a snowballs chance in hell of surviving, let alone thriving???
BTW I have never invested a dime in CAML... I knew a loser when I saw it for the first time.
Everyone started to develop net phones because of the promise of profit, and because they are relatively easy to produce, at least at the rudimentary level. The code that Pulver was supposed to have distributed...it wasn't code but a driver, he never had source code for anything. The driver was supposed to enable full duplex with the Sounblaster cards. Unfortunately it never worked. It crashed numerous machines and disabled all functionality of the SB card, but never provided full duplex. Digiphone does not even provide this driver anymore, because it was such a disaster. Even had Pulver had source code for this driver, which he didn't, It would have done no one any good...it was nothing but junk, just like the rest of the crap Camelot has produced!!
Yes time will tell, but surely it won't tell of the success of this company! |
