Using Ekiga from a hotel

Question

Since Skype crashes whenever someone signs in, signs out, or sends a chat message, it has become unusable and I need to change. A post at AskUbuntu lists Ekiga as an alternative. When I try to use it, I get:

Ekiga did not manage to configure your network settings automatically. You can still use it, but you need to configure your network settings manually.

Ekiga did not manage to configure your network settings automatically. You can still use it, but you need to configure your network settings manually.

Please see http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Enable_port_forwarding_manually for instructions

However, I'm at a hotel and unable to configure my router. Can I still use Ekiga?

Answer 1

Unless your router has ports blocked, Ekiga (sip client) should work fine. Are you trying to use it with a SIP account? Ekiga account? Ekiga call out account? or h.323 account? i use Ekiga daily as a sip client and have never had to do any router setup for it to work. (sip uses port 5060 usually) You could try another sip client like Sfl-phone or Linphone.