Make sure you dial numbers in the format
+1 XXX YYYZZZZ

and it should work fine.

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Ahh! It looked from the help text like you only had to enter + and not +1. Using +1 before the number does do the trick. Thanks!

I thought the should quality of my test call was certainly a lot worse than a regular phone, but not unbearable. I probably wouldn't choose Skype as a replacement for my landline due to the sound quality (lack thereof), but it will prove useful for a trip we're going to be taking that will have us halfway across the country for 7 weeks. With Skype we can have free outgoing calls, and for about $13 we can have incoming calls for 3 months, covering the whole trip and more, and we'll have a phone number that will be local to our families, and that's a big deal.

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