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oh I don't know the features here from this screen shot look fine?

From the article:

5.2. Why do I currently have to buy a Quicknet card if I want to do PC-To-Phone calls?

All providers need the G.723.1 audio codec to be able to do PC-To-Phone calls. That codec is patented and can't be added directly into the GnomeMeeting code. However, buying a Quicknet card offers you other features that will also be useful if you are not doing PC-To-Phone calls.
(Emphasis mine).

Hm, only one vendor is listed on the Gnome meeting website -- their cheapest card is US$109.

On a Windows PC, you don't need a card - the soundcard and CPU are sufficient for PC-to-Phone.
I guess Microsoft pays the codec royalties -- and a copy of Windows XP Home off pricewatch.com is US$90.

*Grin* I think only hardcore Linux users will followup on this article.

I wonder if it's possible to convince the telcom company they're using as their gateway ("MicroTelco") to accepts voice calls using a free codec (the new Ogg Vorbis voice codec comes to mind).

Sorry, but i've yet to ever investigate this very interesting field.

The faq and the features page are not written too well.

What tools can i use to do pc-pc calls over linux?

For the most part, voice is covered, we have cell phones, short wave radios, walkie-taklies with a 2 mile range and more! These things are all entrenched, they work, and they are now fairly cheap. Do we need anything else? Would WiFi voice provide better communication than those voice-based devices we are already using?

WiFi would seem like a far better solution than any of those you mention above once you add in the obvious component:

Voice over IP

With a VOIP WiFi "cell phone" you could conceivable talk to anyone in range (peer-to-peer) at no cost, and to anyone connected to the internet if you are in range of a base station.

You even already have an MPL'd H.323 protocol library to provide communication with NetMeeting and GnomeMeeting users. In fact, I've been looking for something like this which could compile on the LinuxARM architecture, in order to turn my iPAQ running Linux into a WiFi cellular phone.

--Cycon

I heard that GnomeMeeting will be ported to Windows and will finally support SIP. It is also currently ported to MacOSX. It probably won't work with Microsoft servers, but at least it could be the cross-platform standard. It runs very well under Linux, FreeBSD, ... I think that this program could become the reference, and I personnally love it. The developers made a good job.

Gnomemeeting works very well and is compatible with netmeeting

And it makes GnomeMeeting illegal too (unless I could use another XP licence for that)

for *nix try this -- I had a nightmare getting it compiled -- but it looks promising -- uses the H323 and seems to work with netmeeting. Gnomemeeting

PS. I have not actually tested the conferencing part yet -- that would be done tonight.

Whoops, that should be GNOMEMeeting.org.

has anyone successfully used GnomeMeeting with NetMeeting? Including working audio, video, chat?