If your mobile is less than two years old it's highly likely that you can access the internet from it.
If you're not sure whether you're set up for internet access, have a look on your phone's menu. You'll probably see an icon like a globe or maybe a link to your service provider's internet portal page. You can also try accessing a website like Google, to check that you have a connection.
Can't access the internet but your phone looks like it has the capability to? You may recognise one of the icons below. Alternatively your mobile may have an icon specific to your network provider which enables you to connect to their portal or website as a starting point to connecting to the internet.
You may need to enable your phone for internet use. This is pretty straightforward to do on either Pay As You Go or monthly contract services.
Register and download Skype for free
Not already a Skype user? Don't worry its both free and easy to get set up!
If you're already a Skype user you'll know about the benefits of the service and how you can call all your friends or family that are also on skype for free.
Well, with jabbrz you can now do this on your mobile. What's more, you'll be able to make international calls on your mobile with Skype's SkypeOut rates - these are much, much lower than your mobile phone rates.
Just as if you were using Skype normally, you'll need to have it running on your PC.
You may need to enable your phone for internet use. This is pretty straightforward to do on either Pay As You Go or monthly contract services.
Installing the jabbrz client
After the quick registration process (start at 'get jabbrz now') you need to install the jabbrz client to your pc.
There are instructions on how to do this available on the install page but after installing and running the client on your PC you will need to allow your Skype account to use jabbrz - by clicking a link that appears in your Skype console.
?Install the jabbrz client by following the on screen instructions. ?Make sure Skype is running on your computer while installing jabbrz. ?Run the jabbrz client by entering the username and password that you chose during website registration. Launch Skype to continue. ?Allow jabbrz.exe to use Skype by clicking on accept. ?A new event should appear, click on jabbrz.exe to accept event. ?Then select "Allow the program to use Skype" from the options available and click on ok.
Using jabbrz on your mobile phone
With jabbrz and Skype running on your PC, go to www.jabbrz.mobi on your mobile. Remember with jabbrz there is nothing to download to your phone, so it works on any phone, on any network, as long as it has an internet connection.
You have to use your username and password the first time you visit the site but after that you just get taken to a page to start calling your Skype or normal contacts!
About Jabbrz
jabbrz offers consumers a unique new way to make low cost international calls from a mobile phone. Our beta service uses Skype, allowing users to access Skype on any mobile phone, on any network, providing it is connected to the internet.
Unlike other services, jabbrz doesn't require anything to be downloaded to a mobile phone. The only requirement is that a user is able to connect to the internet on it. A call is also made by calling a regular local number (not a premium or special rate number) - most likely included in an inclusive minutes package. As well as allowing the user to make cheap calls from their mobile phone, this method ensures call quality is high, just like a regular local call - mobile VoIP providers can't say the same!
User benefits provided by jabbrz:
?cheap rates for making international calls ?Skype users can call other Skype users for free on their mobile phone ?nothing to download to the phone - so works on any handset ?great call quality - user connects as they would do for a regular, local call
If you've been brought up in the 21st century then you probably take a lot of things for granted that 30 years ago people just didn't have. One of those things is the Internet and its ability to be able to connect people from all over the world and allow them to interact with each other in a variety of ways including sending email, visiting web sites, joining forums, attending online chats and countless other things. But none of this would be possible if it weren't for a device that most people have never seen and probably don't even know exist, called a router.
Routers are pieces of equipment that send messages from everyone connected to the network along thousands of different pathways. We're going to take a behind the scenes look at exactly how these routers work.
Let's say you're sending an email to a friend of yours who is living across country or even in another part of the world. How does the email know to end up on your friend's computer instead of all the other millions of computers all over the world? A good part of the work to get these messages from one computer to another is handled by routers. Rather than pass messages within networks, routers pass messages from one network to another.
To get an idea of how this works, let's take a very simple example.
Let's say you have two departments. Department A with 5 employees and Department B with 5 employees. Let's say that Employee 1 from Department A wants to send an email to Employee 3 at Department B. Each department is part of its own network of computers. A router links the two networks together so that they can communicate with each other. It is the only piece of equipment that sees both networks. Many people ask, why not just make one network? The simple answer is that if the two departments do two completely different jobs for the company and send massive amounts of info within the department, you don't want to slow down the other department with the one department's info. To ease what they call the "traffic burden" the two departments are separated into two networks with a router put between them to connect them just in case they do want to communicate for some reason.
The way the router knows what to send where is with what is called a configuration table. These configuration table consists of info on which connections lead to which addresses, priorities for each connection, and rules for how to handle the passing of info between networks. The router then has two basic jobs. The main task is to make sure that information doesn't go where it's not needed so that the volume of data doesn't clog up the network and the next task is to make sure the information goes to where it's supposed to go.
To simplify how this happens, the router looks at the destination address of each packet sent from the source location. It checks its table to see where this address is and sends each packet to that address, bypassing all the other addresses in the network so as not to slow the network down.
In future articles we'll take a more in depth and technical look at how packets are actually routed. Get on your thinking gear for this one.
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