au contaire!

Broadband is not necessary, though, as with paltalk, the results are better with it.

It's so much clearer than paltalk that the problem that does arise from dial-up is that the delay that you experience with a dial-up is actually echoed back to you on your talking partner's broadband connection. Make sense?

A big plus it that Mac folk can use it (unlike Paltalk).

Another plus/minus -- you don't need to have a stapler close to your Ctrl button to hold it down so you have two hands to play your guitar! --the down side of that though is that, as with cell phones or any other type of speaker phone, any noise that occurs can interrupt the signal for all -- still only one can talk at a time. So having a positive way to make sure that only one person has the "mic" is really not a bad thing after all.

Another minus -- I think the number of folk in a room is limited (that may explain why folks are raving about the sound quality).