PicoPhone
PicoPhone is a simple Internet
phone application with chat. If you want a more advanced application, that has also video, file transfer, address book, that can call regular phones, send SMS messages to cellphones and more, take v-Phone.
I made Picophone, because all the
Internet phones around are quite heavy and use complicated protocols, such
as H.323, which has problems with NAPT routers. PicoPhone uses a simple
UDP-based protocol, which works very well with NAPT. The program accepts
connections on UDP port 11676 and makes connection to that port. Optionally
a port number can follow the address (the colon is used as a separator),
if the connection has to be made to another port (the NAPT router on the
receiving side should convert the port number to the default 11676).
PicoPhone allows multiple
concurrent calls, but the audio device should allow multiple output streams
to be opened simultaneously.
On incoming calls the program
plays the file ringin.wav, which should be present
in the default windows location for wav files or in the same directory
of PicoPhone.
Here is the version
1.65. It is free.
Here is the version
1.40, if somebody dislikes the new user interface. It
is also free.
If you don't have a static
IP address or if you are behind a NAPT router, the Picoserver service can
be useful to you. Register here.
Important information:
Picophone connects to www.vitez.it to obtain the list of picoservers and
the public IP address of the computer, where Picophone is running. Its
connection attempts are not spyware.
Las instrucciones están disponibles en Español AQUÍ (cortesía de Manuel Moguilevsky).
Instructions in French are available here (thanks to Etienne Neuville).
Russian users can go here.
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