Well, it looks like it's working! I made a few calls from my cell phone using Fring*. Even though I was calling myself it worked, Linphone started ringing on my computer and I started having a conversation with myself :)
* (Fring is a mobile messenger app that allows you to use your SIP account to make calls from your cellphone, so it's basically a client application like Linphone or Ekiga, etc.)
The only thing I couldn't do was test and verify that the video capability was working because I don't know people with SIP accounts and webcams (My cellphone doesn't have a web cam). I'm gonna set up my wife with an SIP account soon and I'll report back.
One last note which is probably more of a hardware issue on my end is: Once in a blue moon my speakers and mic won't respond and Linphone is no fun. But I found that the easy fix in Ubuntu at least is to go to System > Preferences > Multimedia Systems Selector and just click on the Test buttons for Default output and Default input. After that everything is detected and works.
Well, it looks like it's working! I made a few calls from my cell phone using Fring*. Even though I was calling myself it worked, Linphone started ringing on my computer and I started having a conversation with myself :)
* (Fring is a mobile messenger app that allows you to use your SIP account to make calls from your cellphone, so it's basically a client application like Linphone or Ekiga, etc.)
The only thing I couldn't do was test and verify that the video capability was working because I don't know people with SIP accounts and webcams (My cellphone doesn't have a web cam). I'm gonna set up my wife with an SIP account soon and I'll report back.
One last note which is probably more of a hardware issue on my end is: Once in a blue moon my speakers and mic won't respond and Linphone is no fun. But I found that the easy fix in Ubuntu at least is to go to System > Preferences > Multimedia Systems Selector and just click on the Test buttons for Default output and Default input. After that everything is detected and works.
Happy VoIPing!