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    Anyone use Skype or GoogleTalk (audio)?

    Does anybody here use Skype or Google Talk (w/audio)? If so, what headset do you use? How fast is your connection? Is the quality good?

    I'm thinking about buying a headset. The following seems pretty expensive at ~ $300, but it's one of those wireless/earbud type ones.

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    http://www.plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/products/cat640035/cat5480033/prod5300004


    Here's a wired headset at a more reasonable ~ $90.

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    http://www.plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/products/cat640035/cat1430032/prod440044
    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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    Playful just dl Skype. Several I know I have, too.

    I'm not going that expensive. Headphones with boom mic, 25 bucks at Best Buy.
    Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
    "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
    He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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    • #3
      Cool. Let me know how that goes.

      Here's a wireless/earbud from Motorola. Works with your bluetooth cell phone too. $100.

      http://www.skypemart.com/direct/skypeusa/itemdetl.jsp?prod=2855
      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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      • #4
        I use a $15 headset I got from Walmart. Sounds great...
        "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
        Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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        • #5
          Is it a USB headphone, or do you plug it in to your sound card?
          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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          • #6
            Best Buy International: Select your Country - Best Buy
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            Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
            "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
            He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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            • #7
              Yeah, I just use an ancient headset that came with one of the voice recognition packages I was trying a few years ago...Dragon, I think. From what I've seen and tried, quality has a lot more to do with your ability to put the mic in the right place than the hardware you use. No need to go overboard.
              "In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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              • #8
                Originally posted by DanS
                Is it a USB headphone, or do you plug it in to your sound card?
                Soundcard.
                "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                • #9
                  same.
                  "Everything for the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State" - Benito Mussolini

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                  • #10
                    Thanks, all.

                    I ended up buying the Plantronics DSP-500 (USB) headset for $46 from buy.com.

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                    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                    • #11
                      FYI, for fun, compare my mad ping times of google.com to my even madder ping times of talk.google.com.

                      google.com -- min: 25 milliseconds; max: 42 milliseconds; average: 29 milliseconds

                      talk.google.com -- min: 9 milliseconds; max: 38 milliseconds; average: 14 milliseconds
                      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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