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VOIP Softphones

Hi,

I've recently joined up with https://www.freecall.com to make free/cheap calls, and also used the services of https://www.voiptalk.org, so that I have a geographic number that diverts to the soft phone which I am currently using (Counterparts' X-Lite 3).

My problem is, that X-Lite 3 only offers the ability to input one sip account .

Does anyone know of another free softphone that does all the things that X-Lite 3 does, but allows 2 or more sip accounts pointing to it.

Voiptalk does allow the number to forward to freecall.com but then I can't make use of the voicemail on Voiptalk.

I've also looked at the old X-Lite 2 that does allow more than one account, but it looks rather clunky and doesn't allow things like 'Do not disturb' so I can then forward calls to voicemail.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks
Dean
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  • circuit
    circuit Posts: 508 Forumite
    i have just been looking at a softphone called ExpressTalk which apparently allows more than one account, but i have not tried it yet.
  • If you have any luck with it please let me know. I did have a quick look a while back but it was asking me to open ports on my router (which none of the others did). Also when I did open the ports it suggested it still thought that they weren't open.

    Dean
  • My understanding is that sjphone can use multiple accounts, but Im not sure if it registers to all VSP at the same time

    I use ekiga (gnomemeeting) myself which does what you want to do, but its not available on windows.

    Might be worth looking into voxalot.com , which is what I use for my hardware solution at the moment. Its kind of a VSP manager thing - very handy.

    EDIT: Actually Voxalot.com will defo do what you want.
  • Thanks Kingmonkey, I'll take a look.

    Dean
  • pin
    pin Posts: 4,265 Forumite
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    I use SJPhone for my set up. You can have multiple accounts, however you can only log onto one account at a time.
    "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" - Mahatma Gandhi
  • arndale
    arndale Posts: 16 Forumite
    Hi Kingmoney,

    It looks like voxalot is a service and suggests X-Lite as a softphone.

    Pin, I've tried SJPhone, but as you say, it can only handle one account at a time.

    Thanks
    Dean
  • aerostar
    aerostar Posts: 1,738 Forumite
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    I use Express Talk, 4 lines, no ports to open - use a stun server


    http://nch.com.au/talk/index.html


    Download
    http://nch.com.au/cgi-bin/dld.exe?file=http://nch.com.au/talk/talksetup.exe
  • Yes voxalot is a service which registers other VSP and allows you to make dial plans.
  • redux
    redux Posts: 23,001 Forumite
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    Does X-Pro handle multiple accounts?


    Another NCH product I saw discussed elsewhere is Uplink, a Skype/SIP adaptor, which could have some call forwarding possibilities if I can my head around it. Has anybody here tried it? It looks like you'd leave the PC on or stick it on a separate server though.
  • pin
    pin Posts: 4,265 Forumite
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    redux wrote:
    Does X-Pro handle multiple accounts?


    Another NCH product I saw discussed elsewhere is Uplink, a Skype/SIP adaptor, which could have some call forwarding possibilities if I can my head around it. Has anybody here tried it? It looks like you'd leave the PC on or stick it on a separate server though.

    I think X-Pro has multiple accounts.
    "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" - Mahatma Gandhi
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