Using Ekiga with SipGate UK
A while back I provided instructions on setting up LinPhone to use SipGate UK for Voice Over IP. Now, Ubuntu 6.04 Dapper is out, and comes with the all-new Ekiga softphone! Here’s how to set it up to use SipGate.
- Sign up for a SipGate account.
- Once you’ve got one, sign into the SipGate website and click “My Account”.
- Under “Connection Information”, it will list your SIP-ID (a 7-digit number) and password, which you need for the next steps.
- Start Ekiga, and go through the configuration wizard. Don’t sign up for an ekiga.net account.
- Say Edit > Accounts, and then Add.
- In Account Name, enter
Sipgate. - Leave Protocol as SIP.
- In Registrar, put
sipgate.co.uk. - In User and Password, put your SIP-ID and password from step 3 above and say OK.
That’s it. No port-forwarding required, no complex setup. Well done the Ekiga people! To test your new setup, call sip:613@fwd.pulver.com, which is an echo test.
Is Dapper out - I thought they put it back ? The Ubuntu websire still says 5.10
Confused of Birmingham
10 hours later
Oh, yeah, sorry, I’m running a Dapper pre-release. Read that as “when Dapper comes out”. :)
11 hours later
Oh, I see. Unlike you to run beta though !
17 hours later
Ta for that - we are looking at going over to Viop at work and since our desktops are ubuntu its usefull to know that we can use Sipgate. This may mean we don’t use Vonage.
28 weeks later