HOWTO: Install Ekiga with voipcheap account

[aliyanage]

Hi all,
After having a few issues I got my ekiga working using SIP with a voipcheap.com account. Thought some of you might be interested in how I did it:

1. www.voipcheap.com
Go to voipcheap.com register and make yourself an account.

2. Start Ekiga
Go to Applications/Internet/Ekiga Softphone (installed by default in Ubuntu)

3. Cancel configuration druid
Cancel the configuration druid and go to Edit/Accounts and click Add.

4. Adding SIP account
Account name: VoipCheap (free to choose)
Protocol: SIP
Registrar: sip.voipcheap.com
Username: (username from voipcheap)
Password: (password from voipcheap)
Authentication Login: (username from voipcheap)
Realm/Domain: voipcheap.com
Registration Timeout: 3600

And then close accounts window.

5. Preference settings
-Go to Edit/Preferences
-Go to General/SoundEvents and set alternative output device to default.
-Go to Protocols/NetworkSettings
NAT Traversal Method: STUN
Stun Server: stun.voipcheap.com
and then click on Apply.
-Go to Protocols/SIPSettings
Outbound Proxy: sip.voipcheap.com
-Go to Devices/AudioDevices
Audio Devices Output Device: default
Audio Devices Input Device: default

And that's it, worked fine with me and I am doing my free landline calls to most of the countries

[hikaricore]

Unless I'm missing something you have to download their client software to create an account now. >.< Hopefully wine can handle it, otherwise I'll be booting win2k in vmware lol.

[canard]

hi,

Very interesting...
I've been using wengo for a long time and the rates are the same, except that you get 300 minutes free calls per 7 days during 90 days. Am I right?
And then you have to top up your account to get back the free calls for the next 90 days.

My question is how much is the minimum you can put on your account and is the quality very good? You don't have "free" calls with wengo but i find it just like a regular phone, so i won't switch unless it is really as good....

thx

[aliyanage]

@hicaricore
sorry yes you'll have to download the client and then create urself an account. Such a long time ago I did it that I've already forgot about it

[aliyanage]

@canard
ur right, you get 300 free minutes per week during 90 days. After that I had to top up my account with about 6 euros, but the cool thing is that it's not really like a contribution to voipcheap, those 6 euros will go to your account and you'll be able to use them as well. I use them usually for mobile calls.

I never used wengo, all I knew about was skype which doesn't include any free calls and is about twice as expensive as voipcheap.com.

I would just give it a try...

[canard]

thx for your answer.

I just figured out that you can try it for free with calls limited to 1 minute or so. I guess i should go for it and see if i am happy with the quality. My credit is almost 0 on wengo so i can switch to it if sounds ok.

[hikaricore]

@hicaricore
sorry yes you'll have to download the client and then create urself an account. Such a long time ago I did it that I've already forgot about it

Ok for those of you looking to do this entirely from within linux, you'll need to install the client: Download Link.

Then you'll need to (asuming from your home dir and the file is on your desktop) run:

wine Desktop/setupvoipcheapCOM.exe

after it installs which it will do slowly....

You'll need two dll files in your ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 directory:

pdh.dll and odbcbcp.dll

Cnce you've placed them there, you're safe to run:

wine "C:\\Program Files\\VoipCheapCom\\VoipCheapCom.exe"

Create your account, get all the info you need together... then delete the horrid piece of windows trash (optional). Proceed with aliyanage's plans for voip domination.

The end.

[hikaricore]

...or maybe watch the registration process fail horribly... looks like I may be running vmware after all :/

(results may vary)

[creaturex]

something wrong with a dns option, specifically the DNS_QUERY_BYPASS_CACHE is not implemented.

[aliyanage]

Ok for those of you looking to do this entirely from within linux, you'll need to install the client: Download Link.

Then you'll need to (asuming from your home dir and the file is on your desktop) run:

wine Desktop/setupvoipcheapCOM.exe

after it installs which it will do slowly....

You'll need two dll files in your ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 directory:

pdh.dll and odbcbcp.dll

Cnce you've placed them there, you're safe to run:

wine "C:\\Program Files\\VoipCheapCom\\VoipCheapCom.exe"

Create your account, get all the info you need together... then delete the horrid piece of windows trash (optional). Proceed with aliyanage's plans for voip domination.

The end.

Thanks for the add Hikaricore 8)