From Wsms

Internet Phone Services Simplified
Jim Doherty and Neil Anderson
ISBN 1-58720-162-3

Rating: 3 out of 5 penguins

Review

This is an OK book. It provides the information a truly naive user would need to set up a commercial VOIP account.

This short book is very repetive and chatty. Beyond the historical perspectives, it conatins little useful information that can't be found by looking at a few web sites.

Some of the content is pretty, but usless, graphics. I hope you like the picture of the lady on the book's cover, because you get to see it five more times inside the book. Each time it occupies a full page.

Even though the book devotes a lot of content to analyzing to cost of various options, it doesn't even mention the fact that you can try VOIP free with a software phone and something like ekiga (the application formerly known as gnomemeeting). Softphone and SIP are found only in the glossary.

It is an easy read that will give you rock-bottom basics of setting up your home network and computer for commercial VOIP service.