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...even that newfangled. Companies like Net2phone and DialPad have been selling Internet phone service for years. But it hasn't caught on for a variety of reasons: it can be tricky to use, some services require exotic hardware, and the audio quality is iffy at best--most Internet phone calls sound like they're coming from a broken pay phone on Mars...
...latest network headache to strike, students trying to call home using a popular Internet telephony program known as Dialpad have been frustrated by sluggish or unusable connections. The problem lies with the HASCS filtering software. It recognizes and gives precedence to certain types of traffic--types normally generated by e-mail programs or web browsers--but places restrictions on other traffic, failing to distinguish between a student's use of Dialpad and an outside Napster request for a song stored on a student's computer...
Anna Yesilevsky '04 said that she has not been able to use Internet calling services such as Dialpad, Net2Phone, and Microsoft Netmeeting for over a week. As a result, she has had to use calling cards to keep in touch with friends and family in her home state of California...
...example, a student attempting to use a program like Dialpad might be able to make a call via the network and initiate a conversation, but traffic on the network might be so heavy that the conversation may be sent to the pending cue to wait...
...Dialpad because it's free and I'm cheap," says Katherine A. McEnaney '03. "I'm not going to spend money for long distance if I don't have to. I actually forgot my PAC number months and months and months...
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