[asterisk-users] Best and easiest soft phone for my Dad..

[Baji Panchumarti]

 SIP has a lot of issues with NAT, I can only get it to work correctly
 on my LAN with a softphone.

 IDEFISK, now known as Zoiper, is IAX based and I have tested it
 from all kinds of hotel rooms, even the free version supports
 6 simultaneous calls :

                      http://www.asteriskguru.com/idefisk/

 good luck !

 -baji.

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  On 7/21/07, WipeOut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is the situation.. My Dad is working on contract in overseas.. He
> has internet access in his hotel.. He wants to be able to talk to my Mum
> but the calls are expensive..
>
> I have an asterisk box setup for my business and it has a public IP
> etc.. My Mum has access to a working phone extension on this box..
>
> I got my Dad to install X-Lite but for some reason it won't register and
> trying to talk him through working out whats wrong is proving to be
> difficult.. Also I haven't used a softphone in years.. It could be the
> NAT in the hotel, it could be a firewall or any number of things that
> can cause these issues.. It could even be X-Lite or something running on
> his PC..
>
> So I am looking for a softphone thats really simple to setup and as
> foolproof as possible..
>
> If SIP is likely to be problematic to setup then I have no problem
> getting him to use IAX but will need suggestions of which IAX softphone
> to use and also how to configure it in the iax.conf (haven't done this
> before)..
>
> Any suggestions welcome and appreciated..
>
> Thanks..
>
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