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Dialing for No Dollars: Actiontec's Net Phone.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)

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| August 01, 2000 | Captain, Sean | COPYRIGHT 2003 PC World Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

I CAN'T ALWAYS get through to my Mom--at least I couldn't while testing Actiontec's Internet Phone Wizard, a nifty new product that connects your telephone to the Internet to allow free U.S. long-distance calling. When it works, the system convincingly mimics a regular call, but it didn't succeed every time.

I found that when I called Mom, my 56-kbps winmodem slowed to 28 kbps. With the first calls, the telephone at Mom's house rang and I could hear her answer, but she couldn't hear me. After several tries, we finally made contact, but the sound was occasionally choppy. Later, I used a DSL connection in the PC World Test Center and got much better results.

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