Wireless to Linksys PAP2 Vonage

I'm quietly posting wrong answers to newsgroups and mailing lists when
my Skype phone rings. It's a friend doing the vacation thing in
Puerto Vallarta. She has a Vonage (Linksys PAP2) VoIP router that she
wants to use to make calls. She found an open wireless connection
with her laptop, and was wondering why plugging the PAP2 router into
the laptop ethernet port doesn't magically give her a connection.
Never mind that she doesn't have a crossover cable.

Do I walk her through setting up her laptop with Windoze Connection
Sharing? Is there a better program for the purpose? Or, do I have
her buy a travel router (Linksys WTR54GS) or possibly a wireless
ethernet client bridge box? The basic requirement is that it is
available in Puerto Vallarta and that I can walk a beginner through
the setup. Or should I just take the easy way out and have her buy a
Skype In and Skype Out subscription?

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Just get her to download X-lite or other soft VoIP client, enter her
providers details, job done.
She may find headset with mike useful to cut echo.
Regards,
Martin

"Martin²" <never@give.one> hath wroth:

>Just get her to download X-lite or other soft VoIP client, enter her
>providers details, job done.


<http://www.counterpath.com>
Nice. Yet another VoIP client to play with.

Ummm.... I don't think I'm going to try to get a clueless user to
install yet another VoIP client that I've never seen while she's on
vacation 1000 miles away. The chances of trashing her laptop are too
great. She already has Skype and Gizmo Project (for G.729 telephony).
She doesn't need another client.

>She may find headset with mike useful to cut echo.

She has a Motorola something BlueGoof dongle and headset. Works nice
with only a slight amount of Wi-Fi interference. The big complaint
this morning is that the battery doesn't seem to last long enough for
VoIP. So, I eventually ask how long she talks on the headset. "Oh,
about 4-6 hours while walking around the swimming pool" was the
answer. Sigh. It's a tough life, but somebody has to do it.

Thanks much...

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Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> Ummm.... I don't think I'm going to try to get a clueless user to
> install yet another VoIP client that I've never seen while she's on
> vacation 1000 miles away.

That why we install Citrix remote access on some clients that travel alot.
But if you don't want to spend the $300 or $400 a month for a pair of
Citrix tech support seats, try out the PcHelpWare.

http://www.uvnc.com/pchelpware/

DTC <no_spam@move_along_folks.foob> hath wroth:

>Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>> Ummm.... I don't think I'm going to try to get a clueless user to
>> install yet another VoIP client that I've never seen while she's on
>> vacation 1000 miles away.
>
>That why we install Citrix remote access on some clients that travel alot.
>But if you don't want to spend the $300 or $400 a month for a pair of
>Citrix tech support seats, try out the PcHelpWare.
>
>http://www.uvnc.com/pchelpware/

I run RealVNC (commercial version) on some of my mission critical
clients and the free version on most everything else. The problem
with using the server on a laptop is that it's almost always on the
wrong side of a firewall. For example, the typical hotel, coffee
shop, or pirated wireless connection, is not going to allow me to
redirect ports 5800/5900. No port forwarding usually means no remote
access.

RealVNC also runs a repeater service to avoid router port forwarding,
similar to PCHelpware, but I've never bothered to try it. I'll give
it a try, but not this time. I don't want to be learning a new
program on short notice.

Thanks much.


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Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558