X-Lite VoIP Softphone Working in Mac OSX Snow Leopard–Finally - February 17, 2010
I recently switched to ViaTalk for my home phone. ViaTalk has somewhat of a reputation for not being user friendly, but if you’re a typical do-it-yourselfer, it’s a pretty good deal. I’m paying less than half of what I paid with Vonage and the ability to blacklist phone numbers over the web is absolutely great. ViaTalk does not supply you with a softphone, but it does provide you with the settings to use with 3rd party softphone software. CounterPath (http://www.counterpath.com/x-lite-download.html) offers both free and not-free softphone products. X-Lite 4.0 beta is the free softphone that will work with OSX Snow Leopard. The default settings did not work for me. I could place and receive calls, but I could not hear the other party while they could hear me. I’m fairy sure this problem was caused by routing confusion dealing with NAT. I finally figured out the settings that make everything work (see screen shot below). This setup makes me pretty happy. I’m saving money, I can blacklist phone spammers, I have callerid on my desktop softphone and it works well using my built-in speaker and microphone as well as my Logitech USB headset.


