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!"
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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
**********
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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