Monday, 21 April 2008

VoIP on the Mac

There are many providers of VoIP calls. Here at home, we use Freecall, a service of Betamax. It is one of the cheapest (also of Betamax exists Lowratevoip and nonoh, cheaper and with more free destinies but without the possibility to buy credit using credit card, for now).


We had been using Express Talk for Mac 2.04 to configure our VoIP in Mac OS X but 2 months ago that we have problems of sound, when we call the tone is heard, the bearing and the sound of the call, but when they answer they don't hear us neither we hear nothing. We even update to the version 3.04 but the problem was not solved.


I tried to configure the new one iSoftphone of call4mac but in spite of being the third intent with the different versions (in demo version) I did not manage to make it work with my Freecall server. Finally searching through the internet, I found a project of sourceforge called Xmeeting.
XMeeting
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And although the interface of Xmeeting is more prepared for videoconferences by internet, if one chooses to use the SIP, and configures the account of its VoIP supplier, functions very well. And it lets you to keep different locating, very useful for whom uses a portable computer and different connections of internet.
XmeetingPreferences
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XMeetingAccounts
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