To all,
I have this question for quite sometime. Go ahead and laugh if you think it's stupid, but I do need to get this clear away from my mind. So, please help.
Remember about three years ago, the so-called Internet Phone was hot for a while and vaporized soon after? I do have a few friends successfully made it to function back then. One of the problem is the party you are calling has to be on-line at the same time, just the initiation of a call would be a big hustle. It got killed for lack of convenience.
Since cable modem is always on, theoretically, it shouldn't be too hard to write a utility to constantly pooling a centralized site for every few seconds and check for the incoming call, right? If ICQ can be such a smashing success, how difficult would that be to create a centralized hub and to get Internet Phone becoming a viable solution again? Voice conversation over the Internet shouldn't create too much of burden to the bandwidth should it?
I don't see T/TCI can stop people from doing that, and if we can call the other parties with cable modem connection, then I won't mind to wait till IP telephony become cost effective. The bottom line is this always-on feature of cable modem.
Comment, please.
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