Comments on: Alternatives to Skype beginning Jan 1, 2007 : Ubuntu (6.10)

By: Free video phone calls

Free video phone calls — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:20:44 +0000

it is true that nowadays the easiest way to communicate with someone from another country is to use voip applications. I use Skype.
And, why not, the financial part should not be ignored. This type of calls are free.

By: B.Mercer

B.Mercer — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:01:43 +0000

Who cares? I mean really.
Skype is good and chances are you’re going to have more free to call contacts from Skype->Skype, 14.95 is hardly a big price for unlimited calls compared to pay per call systems.
But hey go ahead if you really believe an invisible protocol is going to keep you awake at night.

By: P.H. Bergez

P.H. Bergez — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:10:57 +0000

That’s what Wengophone is intended for…
I met its people recently and found that in spite of being entirely backed by Wengo they are willing to design the software as flexible as possible. Currently it works with all IM providers and they’re trying to make it equally easy to call with any SIP providers.

By: Nathan DBB

Nathan DBB — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:48:44 +0000

Users want stuff that works and open IM is not yet working on common setups for common usrs.

I want open-source (GPL) clients from these people. If we have open clients, with code that can be re-purposed, it will be huge.

Perhaps the best way to fight the dominance of skype would be to push for a GPL’ed version. Then embrace their client and then extend it to work with Evolution/Kontact and Xmpp.

Will the Maemo version (Nokia N800) be GPL or BSD?

By: Nathan DBB

Nathan DBB — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:52:00 +0000

It would be nice if you could see IM/voice presence from Evolution/kontact and then just “call” them. It would then call the contact trying the methods/softwares that you prefer but falling back until it finds one that the contact has.

I don’t mind having 10 IM clients open, that is why I have a gig of ram.

By: Jerome G

Jerome G — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:46:47 +0000

I’ve always used sipphone and the gizmo softphone or use an ATA then connect a regular phone. Works great!

By: Jonathon Conte

Jonathon Conte — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:13:14 +0000

A few months back I was also in search of a VOIP provider that supported open standards and I discovered BroadVoice which uses SIP. BroadVoice permits BYOD (bring your own device) so one can use a softphone like Ekiga or any SIP-compliant hardware. I am using BroadVoice with a Linksys Sipura ATA (analog telephone adapter) so that I can use the service with my cordless telephone–it works great. Plus, it’s nice to know that if the telephone or ATA ever break, I can use Ekiga as a fallback.

By: Gabriel Hurley

Gabriel Hurley — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:58:32 +0000

Try Voipbuster (http://www.voipbuster.com/en/index.html) it uses the SIP protocol and can be set up to work with Ekiga. For a one-time payment of 10 Euro, you have free calling to many countries.

To set up in Ekiga:
1.- Edit -> Accounts -> Add.
Name: VOIPBUSTER
Protocol: SIP
Registerer: sip1.voipbuster.com
User: (your voipbuster user name)
Password: (your voipbuster user password)
More options-> Realm/ Domain: voipbuster.com

2.- Edit -> preferences -> protocols
Network configuration:
–NAT pass type: IP translation or nothing. Not STUN
–Stun server: stun.voipbuster.com
SIP settings: Outgoing proxy: sip1.voipbuster.com

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