We've traversed the acronym laden landscape of VoIP for you, and present you with the PC Authority guide to VoIP: what it is, what kinds of services you can find, what savings you can expect to make and how it is that you can go about setting up VoIP for yourself at home.

There has been some truly outstanding coverage of VoIP (voice over IP) in the past year from the non-technical mainstream media, including many examples of spectacularly overblown and hysterical claims of free phone calls to anyone, anywhere, anytime. Never pay for a phone call again! Find out what the telecommunications giants don't want you to.

Manic claims and statements like these guarantee plenty of airtime and column inches, but while the free-ness of VoIP calls is not exactly true it's not entirely off the mark either. The big telcos such as Optus, AAPT, Orange and everyone's favourite whipping-boy Telstra should be concerned about VoIP, especially now it's about to truly enter the consumer market.

It's a new technology and one fully deserving of hype and hyperbole, but at least with this guide you'll be able to see beyond the flashy advertising and marketing hype and will be able to divine the truth of what VoIP is, and most importantly, what it is not. We've traversed the acronym laden landscape of VoIP for you, and present you with the PC Authority guide to VoIP: what it is, what kinds of services you can find, what savings you can expect to make and how it is that you can go about setting up VoIP for yourself at home.

As well as VoIP, we've also taken a look at some of the latest video conferencing products available. Why settle for just voice when you can have video as well?