voip woes

[heiowge]

I'm trying to set up voip between myself (Ubuntu 10.04) and a friend (win Vista).

He uses skype, so I started with skype for linux. After fiddling I found I could have mic or speakers but never both.

So I tried Ekiga Softphone. No problem at my end, but he finds that he can't connect to me, I have to connect to him, and he gets a nasty echo on his mic.

So I tried Skype for Windows on XP through Virtualbox. It crashed every time. Taking it back to version 3 stopped crashing, but no sound.

Back to ekiga. We had problems with connecting. Sometime it would show my contacts but refuse to let me call them and vice versa. I managed to get to hear him and see him, but he couldn't see or hear me. I tried fiddling with the ports to open up VIOP, but we are still having issues.

Anyone get it all to work?

[Dutch_Master]

Just pick up the d*mn phone!

(sorry, couldn't resist )

[heiowge]

LOL.

Yeah, it would probably be easier to call, but we are planning on a 3 way conference session every sunday for a few hours. It could get expensive.

[Dutch_Master]

Well, how about installing Linux on that Win 7 box then Or a live-CD at least

[heiowge]

LOL. Have suggested that in the past. He's one of these "used to windows" computer users.

[leke]

Have you tried gtalk? Google has finally released their plugin for linux.

[heiowge]

I'll give it a look...

***edit***

Google chat installed perfectly! Doesn't seem to do anything though...

[leke]

I'll give it a look...

***edit***

Google chat installed perfectly! Doesn't seem to do anything though...

Yeah, I don't think it will because it's just a plugin. You'll need a client to use it. Unfortunately gTalk client isn't available for Linux yet, but you can use it through gMail

[mm tylor]

VoIP is a best services to make call through internet. Its rates are very reasonable and it provides best routes to calls according to our need.