On Monday 23 February 2009 10:37:57 am Clayton wrote:
can gizmo or ekiga be used to make calls to regular telephones or cell phones?
I use Ekiga to make landline calls all the time. The catch is, you need a VoIP provider. I use freecall.com (this provider also gives you a local landline number so people with reg phones can call you), but you can use any VoIP provider who has SIP services. Ekiga.net provides SIP, but if I read/remember right, no landline connections... I think.. I can't remember for sure.
Gizmo does the same. I found (last i compared) that long distance calls via Gizmo were more expensive than my preferred SIP provider.
C.
A good combination might be a program called "Twinkle" (available in the repos) and a voip provider, such as terrasip.com. The problem with VOIP is that - to my experience - sometimes it works for months and then suddenly it stops working, because your voip provider has changed something in their SIP server configuration and they even themselves do not know what it is. For this reason I would prefer skype (there is no hazzle with separate voip program and provider, but everything is "integrated"). I list here my experiences with some voip providers (for an incoming number located in Spain): voiptalk.org never worked and they had very crappy customer service voipvoip.com worked in the beginning great but then stopped working and though they had a superb customer service, they were unable to fix things. Currently I am using terrasip.com Cheers, Sampsa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org