Running VoIP Stunt on Ubuntu!

VoIPStunt is a VoIP service which lets you make cheap phone calls to normal PSTN (your regular landline phone) or mobile phones. I’m a huge fan of this service as it allows me to make free phone calls to lot of countries and I just have to charge it for a small amount but I get to make lot of free calls to various countries and make use of each and every penny I invest in this service or rather much more than that.

So, while I shifted to Linux, I noticed that VoIPStunt didn’t have Linux version and that did dishearten me. However, luckily they support SIP protocol (the protocol behind Google Talk) and that allowed me to configure VoIPStunt and use it on my Ubuntu!

Here’s what I did to ensure that I could use the dirt cheap services (and cool too) of VoIP Stunt :

1. Open Ekiga softphone (Applications->Internet->Ekiga Softphone)
2. Follow the wizard of setting up the softphone and put these settings, when required :

Account : VoIPStunt
Registrar : sip.voipstunt.com
Username : your voipstunt username
password : your voipstunt password

That’s all is really required and it worked like a charm, like this you can configure any SIP based VoIP services. You just need the Registrar information and in some cases, you may need to change the port too, but you’ll get that information from the service provider.