mills23 said:
I am just looking for a easy and free way to use my cell to make and receive calls using my wifi because I don't get service in my house. I thought sipdroid would work but I can't get it set up right.
If you're looking to have your phone work as it does in places where you do have good service (i.e, you want people to be able to call you on your mobile number and have your phone ring), VoIP isn't going to solve that problem. T-Mobile has a solution that works over WiFi; for Sprint or Verizon you need a gadget called a
network extender, and for any other carrier, you're out of luck.
As for the free part, there's no such thing as a free lunch. SIP providers and Skype offer free calls if you're connecting to another user who's also connected to the Internet, because it costs them almost nothing. Both charge by the minute for connecting to the public phone network (that is, the numbers you'd normally be calling).
mills23 said:
Where do I get the right info?
Your VoIP provider should give you the information when you sign up or point you at a page on their web site that has it. It should include:
- Your VoIP phone number. This will be a ten-digit "real" phone number like 7035551212 if your plan includes incoming service or a seven-digit "virtual" phone number like 5551212 if it doesn't.
- The login name for your account. Many times this is the same as your VoIP phone number.
- Your password, which you probably set when you signed up.
- The name of the SIP server to use, (e.g., sip.voip-company.com).
For SIPDroid, you go to Settings -> SIP Account Settings and plug and plug in the appropriate items above for Authorization Username, Password, Server and Username/Caller ID. You can leave Domain, Port and Protocol alone.
The only other thing you may want to do is go to Settings -> Call Options and tell it to use WiFi and not 3G or EDGE (your cell phone's data plan).
Hope that helps.
--Mark