Vonage Talk Alpha Updated

Posts: 881 · Vonage Forum Evangelist Joined: Nov 05, 2005 Posts: 881

roscopco wrote:

On the earlier version I only heard the phone ring on my usb phone but now I hear the ringing on my laptop speaker and usb phone.

But do you hear two different rings with one being louder than the other?

Posts: 9 · New Forum Member Joined: Aug 18, 2007 Posts: 9

tophtml wrote:

Sadly, the new version's installer has a fatal bug.

After uninstalling the previous version of VonageTalk (which worked by the way) and a reboot for good measure, my attempts to execute the newly downloaded VonageTalk.exe installer file result in . . . well, NOTHING!

I downloaded this file from:
http://alpha.vonage.com/

A 14.1 Mb file that does absolutely nothing. Hopefully Vonage will update this installer soon.

I wish I hadn't gone for this upgrade.

Same problem. Trying to run this on Vista. Does someone have a link to an older version I can try out?

Posts: 11 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Jun 10, 2006 Posts: 11

Out of curiosity, with Vonage talk are we able to just take some SIP settings and enter them onto a Voip enabled phone. (Like a Nokia e-series?) I would love to be able to do this without getting a softphone account. Any way to do it with Vonage talk?

Thanks!

Posts: 42 · Full Forum Member Joined: Aug 12, 2007 Posts: 42

dualsub06 wrote:

roscopco wrote:

Vonage Talk 0.9.1 is available for download

I'm done with this thing for a while. I can't for the life of me get it past my firewall. I use Comodo ...

I finally managed to get this thing past my firewall but what a PIA. Neither the Vonage softphone, Xlite, or any IM that I use needs the kind of access that this program wants, but I think I have reached a happy middle ground by limiting port access to a strict group of IP's.

I hope that they can tone this port usage down for a final release. The way it broadcasts over 10 or 15 ports at once is a concern for me long term in keeping the firewall open to it.

Posts: 7 · New Forum Member Joined: Sep 03, 2007 Posts: 7

What is Vonage talk alpha? Is there a link to explain it, i have never heard of this.

Posts: 881 · Vonage Forum Evangelist Joined: Nov 05, 2005 Posts: 881

http://alpha.vonage.com/

Posts: 67 · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject:

Is there a secret to being able to call a non-vonage number?

Posts: 153 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Jan 11, 2007 Posts: 153

YVR wrote:

Out of curiosity, with Vonage talk are we able to just take some SIP settings and enter them onto a Voip enabled phone. (Like a Nokia e-series?) I would love to be able to do this without getting a softphone account. Any way to do it with Vonage talk?

Thanks!

This is the BIG question. When the first version of Vonage Talk appeared, the one that anyone can get and use for free, even without a Vonage account, I tried to make these "guest" credentials work from another client, and failed. My assumption was that the Vonage Talk registry was looking at something in addition to the credentials, like the "User-Agent:" header, or that the "CallIDs" are generated according to some "special" algorithm. But I might have done something else wrong. Since I don't have a Windoze system, I didn't actually have Vonage Talk itself working with those guest credentials.

What are people using as the credentials? Is it your Vonage Web username and web password? And if so, and you have more than one number, how do you associate it with one of your numbers in particular, so that the calls "get the same rates" as that particular number? (And btw, could this be the "secret" to call outside of Vonage, i.e. are the people who are not able to call outside maybe using the wrong credentials?)

Apparently the way to get incoming calls to go to VonageTalk involves using SimulRing (or other forwarding) and using 011+username.

Since Vonage Talk is supposedly OpenSource, and there is a SourceForge project that's supposed to have the source, but didn't the last time I looked, we oughta be able to see what sort of non-standard thing is going on, if anything.

/john

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You sign in with your Vonage user name and password.

Posts: 830 · Vonage Forum Evangelist Joined: Jun 08, 2007 Posts: 830

Just downloaded Vonage talk and found it works great.

I can call my wired Vonage line at home

I can receive calls (simultaneous ring on laptop and wired Vonage phone)

Can make a call on my wired Vonage line at home while connected to a call via my laptop.