For those of you that use VoIP software for calls (international or not) I must say that I’ve been using my Frecall account with Express Talk for Mac, and it’s working nicely. I was using Freecall over Windows because they only provide a Windows softphone. But now that I found the alternative, I’ll avoid the rebooting every time I needed to make a VoIP call.
As I said here before, I use Frecall because it’s the cheapest I’ve found for my necessities. But you can always try Voipbuster – brother of Freecall – or other. There is Gizmo Project that supports all major OSs as I remember. And then you have also Jajah, which is supposed to be the “easiest” as it does not need us to install any software, we just need your web browser to sign for an account and to start communication phone-to-phone (initiated over the web). Still, Jajah price for my international calls are higher than Frecall.
Anyway, returning to The Express Talk softphone, I can say it is free, it has a Mac version and we can configure 6 different lines – this means we can have accounts in 6 different SIP providers.
If we want to configure our Freecall (or Voipbuster) account we just need to open the application Preferences panel, then click on Lines, and use our username and password with sip.voiparound.com (or sip.voipbuster.com) as our server.
Hope this information is helpful for anyone. Let me know.
Related Posts:
As I said here before, I use Frecall because it’s the cheapest I’ve found for my necessities. But you can always try Voipbuster – brother of Freecall – or other. There is Gizmo Project that supports all major OSs as I remember. And then you have also Jajah, which is supposed to be the “easiest” as it does not need us to install any software, we just need your web browser to sign for an account and to start communication phone-to-phone (initiated over the web). Still, Jajah price for my international calls are higher than Frecall.
Anyway, returning to The Express Talk softphone, I can say it is free, it has a Mac version and we can configure 6 different lines – this means we can have accounts in 6 different SIP providers.
If we want to configure our Freecall (or Voipbuster) account we just need to open the application Preferences panel, then click on Lines, and use our username and password with sip.voiparound.com (or sip.voipbuster.com) as our server.
Hope this information is helpful for anyone. Let me know.
Related Posts:
17 comments:
oh thanks for the post, finally i got my freecall working on mac. i was frustrated that i had to run windows on mac for freecall to work. now i am relieved. i have also tried to use your post on Xmeeting it looks cool but it keep asks about the gatekeeper, which i dont have any clue. but thank you for this.
Hello! I'm glad it was useful for you.... about Xmeeting, you has to be sure you has SIP enabled, not h.323, look into the Address Book tab in the preferences, maybe this image can help... http://img.skitch.com/20081217-fej6ybyc54638shytaha5rem3m.jpg With this selected, xmeeting will use your SIP account and will not ask for gatekeeper. Let me know if it works!!!!
and in the accounts tab, be sure to be registering SIP accounts, not h.323 gatekeeper accounts! Good luck!
Thank's! it's really usefull for me!
hello, i am not so good in mac. i still cannot make my freecall.com to work on mac. can u tell me exactly what to do?
it keeps asking about a sip bria or x-lite and i can´t seem to download them. pls desperate student
Hello, by reading the post, i saw you solved the problem of freecall for mac, could u tell me how? i cant see the old posts. Thank you.
hello, the only way to use freecall in Mac, is to use an alternative software like the ones I write in the post.... you can try to configure freecall in Express Talk, or Xmeeting, o others around there that I can't remember the names...
Hi, Thank you for the post. I was frustrated by clicking on the link for Mac or Linux users on freecall.com. I am able to install Express talk, use freecall.com now.
Bye.
hello can anyone tell me how to use freecall in xmeeting..im new to mac
hello viky... you can try with this link from my blog in spanish to configure xmeeting http://applemacenmivida.blogspot.com/2008/04/voip-en-la-mac.html you can translate with google translate, hope it helps!
hello all! can someone tell me how to download freecall on mac, everytime i filled the form it hasn't been successful.
i will be glad if anyone can help.
hello anonymous... if you take the time to read the post, you should knew that you can't download freecall softphone on your mac, you download another softphone like express tak, xmeeting, or xlite to configure with your freecall account...
thank u very much for this great software!
i have a question though: ive been using voipbuster and freecall and webcalldirect. is there any chance to set the settings for all 3 programmes and then chose according to my calldestination? ive tried configuring 3 lines and clicked a different line every time before starting a call but im not sure its right!
and also: where can i see my balance of how much money i still have on my account?
would be gratefull for an answer
Hello anonymous,
You can set up at least 6 lines in Express Talk for Mac, I just don't remember how (now I'm using Telephone from the Google Code project). This Telephone software also allows for more than one voip account, no matter what provider you're using, having the correct configurations. The balance of the account is a thing I can only see when login online into my account (I now use voip from nonoh.net), if I find another way I let you know!
how can I import my adress book from freecall (pc) to this express-talk?
Hello, I wrote in SIP Server (sip.voiparound.com) for freecall and I entered my Freecall Username and my password, but I still cant make any phonecalls. What I am doing wrong? I chosed default lines. (not line 1 etc)
and when I will be connected with freeecall, how do I import my contact and my money from freecall?
Looking forward for you help!!
( I am new on mac)
They now have a mac client of their own at voipraider, find it at the download page.
It works really nice just like the windows version.
Post a Comment