Was just wondering if anyone actually used it to call overseas and if so is it cheaper than the normal home phone?

PS I f***ING HATE IT WHEN f***ING RANDOMS ASK YOU RANDOM f***ING QUESTIONS WHEN YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING ... EG MY UNCLE!

nope.. i havnt tried. i take it you're trying to call landline?

but if the person you are calling has a computer/internets/skype/headset .. then it's freeeeee

It's alot cheaper and the quality is fine to most places. Can be bad sometimes, but that just depends where you call. I used to call America for like 2c a minute and the quality was fine and no real lag.

I'd be more inclined to use someone like Pennytel or BBGlobal instead of Skype.

i use it daily to make computer to computer calls to netherlands

works well for me

i think there would be cheaper options for voip like what ticman said..

yeah same pc to pc to Maldives, good quality. Sometimes it would take a while for a response but other than that it was ok (like 3 sec delay or something).

I use it to ring from Denmark to Australia/UK and the quality is usually excellent and only costs me 2.7c/min if it's a landline. Don't how that compares to phone cards though.

go to 7/11 and buy a phone card nigga

I've called china before and the drop in quality was worth paying 2cents a minute opposed to the $1 or so telstra would charge. Like ticman said pennytel and that are prolly cheaper but I just found the convenience of skype well.. convenient :P

I already had skype installed so a cc charge later i was up and running making phone calls. Note it is a minimum of $16 and expires after 180 days of your last call (from http://skype.com/intl/en/products/skypeout/). So make a call once every 6 month and you're swoit.

just make your folks get onto TS so you can chat while pwning noobs

i bought one of these http://www.belkin.com/skype/images/STD1_skype.jpg

loaded it with £10 skype out credit. call mum and dad. works better than calling cards.

I use a calling card called "voice" from seben eleben.

$10 on it get me about 3 hours to iraq and the lines are usually pretty good. If it suddenly cuts out or the line goes all shiity then just hang up and ring customer service and they'll put some credit back into your pin number.