Re: [asterisk-users] Best and easiest soft phone for my Dad..

2007-07-22 Thread WipeOut
WipeOut wrote: Hi, Here is the situation.. My Dad is working on contract in overseas.. He has internet access in his hotel.. He wants to be able to talk to my Mum but the calls are expensive.. I have an asterisk box setup for my business and it has a public IP etc.. My Mum has access

Re: [asterisk-users] Best and easiest soft phone for my Dad..

2007-07-22 Thread Baji Panchumarti
Marc, I like your MediaX Phone ( IAX softphone ), I have been using IDEFISK (Zoiper), but I found your softphone easier to configure. It is stable and simpler to use. Keep up the good work. -baji. -- On 7/21/07, Time Bandit wrote: So I am looking for a softphone thats really

Re: [asterisk-users] Best and easiest soft phone for my Dad..

2007-07-22 Thread Time Bandit
Can anyone post a sample of whats needed in iax.conf for an IAX UA to be able to make and receive calls? [7011] type=friend secret=S0m3S3cur3P4ssw0rd qualify=no notransfer=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] host=dynamic disallow=all allow=ulaw,alaw,gsm context=from-internal callerid=Marc Charbonneau 7011

Re: [asterisk-users] Best and easiest soft phone for my Dad..

2007-07-22 Thread WipeOut
Time Bandit wrote: Can anyone post a sample of whats needed in iax.conf for an IAX UA to be able to make and receive calls? [7011] type=friend secret=S0m3S3cur3P4ssw0rd qualify=no notransfer=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] host=dynamic disallow=all allow=ulaw,alaw,gsm context=from-internal

Re: [asterisk-users] Best and easiest soft phone for my Dad..

2007-07-21 Thread Jaswinder Singh
Get portsip ( www.portsip.com ) its realtively easy to configure ( just push in user/password and server name at startup ) .. there might be NAT issue so make sure you have nat=yes in ur asterisk's sip.conf for the peer definition . If it still doesnt work then you need to find a iax phone like

Re: [asterisk-users] Best and easiest soft phone for my Dad..

2007-07-21 Thread Baji Panchumarti
SIP has a lot of issues with NAT, I can only get it to work correctly on my LAN with a softphone. IDEFISK, now known as Zoiper, is IAX based and I have tested it from all kinds of hotel rooms, even the free version supports 6 simultaneous calls :

Re: [asterisk-users] Best and easiest soft phone for my Dad..

2007-07-21 Thread Bruce Reeves
One I really like is the idefsk version that was a zip file, you could extract the file configure the softphone, zip it up and email it out. Saved the headache of walking someone through the process and even ran of thumb drives. On 7/21/07, WipeOut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Here is the

Re: [asterisk-users] Best and easiest soft phone for my Dad..

2007-07-21 Thread Time Bandit
So I am looking for a softphone thats really simple to setup and as foolproof as possible.. If SIP is likely to be problematic to setup then I have no problem getting him to use IAX but will need suggestions of which IAX softphone to use and also how to configure it in the iax.conf (haven't

Re: [asterisk-users] Best and easiest soft phone for my Dad..

2007-07-21 Thread Baji Panchumarti
On 7/21/07, Time Bandit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't specify if he's on Windows, Linux or OSX. But if he is on Windows, you can try my softphone : http://www.marccharbonneau.com/asterisk/mediaxphone.php There is a version using INI file, so you can put all the settings then zip it

Re: [asterisk-users] Best and easiest soft phone for my Dad..

2007-07-21 Thread Andrew Joakimsen
Check this out: http://www.kapanga.net/IP/home.cfm Very easy to create a self-installing pre-configured soft phone. On 7/21/07, WipeOut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Here is the situation.. My Dad is working on contract in overseas.. He has internet access in his hotel.. He wants to be able

Re: [asterisk-users] Best and easiest soft phone for my Dad..

2007-07-21 Thread Baji Panchumarti
On 7/21/07, Andrew Joakimsen wrote: Check this out: http://www.kapanga.net/IP/home.cfm Very easy to create a self-installing pre-configured soft phone. I don't see IAX listed as one of the features, do you know if it is supported ? http://www.kapanga.net/IP/specs.cfm --

Re: [asterisk-users] Best and easiest soft phone for my Dad..

2007-07-21 Thread mitcheloc
It is possible that the hotel is only allowing certain incoming/outgoing ports as well (i.e. just allowing DNS and HTTP traffic). A VPN *might* help with that. On 7/21/07, WipeOut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Here is the situation.. My Dad is working on contract in overseas.. He has internet