This very easily could get way way way way way! off topic, so I'm not going
to let it veer that way. All I'll say is in my book, Express Talk is simply
put, amazing, but, here's the catch, and it's quite a big one... if! and
only if! you don't have a router. I have the Linksys WRT 54G and even after
port forwarding, port triggering, saying the NAT settings, setting up IP mac
cloning, and even performing dhcp forward/resolving, I could never get the
thing to work. It wouldn't even connect to my sip provider let alone allow
me to make/receive calls. I can't get it to work on the Windows nor the Mac
side. Hell, I can't get it working under Linux either. I finally just said
to, you know what, with it. I personally, on my mac, use a free program
from the Mac app store simply called Telephone. Yes, literally, that is its
name... "Telephone." OK, it's admittedly somewhat more basic than Express
Talk, I'll give ya that, but hey, it works, and for what it does, it works
incredibly well. I didn't have to do anything in my router. Absolutely
zip! No port forwarding, none of the other things mentioned above. It
just, simply, worked right out of the box. It was quite good, actually.
I'd be more than happy, seeing I'm long! overdue to be putting up another
podcast eppisode, to make a demo of the app if you all want me to.
The other thing I'd suggest, is for about $70 or so, you can get a hardware
Linksys Sipura device, and then, you run one ethernet cord from its wan port
to a lan port on your router, then leave the lan port on the sipura empty,
and obviously, just like normal, make sure your modem is going from the
modem to the wan port of the router... not to be confused with the Sipura,
and you're all set! Then just plug it into the electrical outlet in your
wall/power strip or whatever, Plug a phone into the RJ45 jack on the Sipura,
and vualla! That's how I do it for my business line I run through CLG
Productions. We use a company who we pay monthly for an Asterisk PBX VPS
server which we have full root access to, and then for our outbound and
inbound trunks, we set up a local Google Voice number, then connect to those
trunks via sip either with Telephone, or the Sipura, or the like. It
actually works extremely well.
Anyway, I'm veerring off topic, as I feared, but the point is, if anyone can
tell me with that specific router after logging in how to configure things
so Express Talk works, I'd be happy to try it, but each and every time I've
asked you all in the past, no one ever responded to me on nor off list, so I
finally just gave up.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Trethowan" <[email protected]>
To: "Techno-Chat ... Technology Enthusiasm!" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 6:31 PM
Subject: SIP Softphone. Download free to call from PC or Mac
Hi!
For those who don't want to buy anything like a Fritz! Box or other
equipment to enjoy the benefits of VOIP telephony then Express Talk may
very well be your answer, just install it onto your computer - Windows or
Mac -, configure the system, connect a headset and you have your own very
flexible and powerful VOIP system.
A free version is available offering basic features, the Professional
version gives you total control over your phone, everything from music on
hold to the recording of telephone calls.
http://www.nch.com.au/talk/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Dane Trethowan
Skype: grtdane12
Phone US (213) 438-9741
Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598
Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589
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Fax +61397437954
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Dane Trethowan
Skype: grtdane12
Phone US (213) 438-9741
Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598
Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589
Mobile: +61400494862
Fax +61397437954
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