Articles tagged with: 'wengophone'

The Internet is probably the largest academic and commercial collaboration in history. It provides numerous sources of information and means of communication.

This section of the guide concentrates on the programs that you will need to make the best use of the resources that the Internet provides.

These resources are provided by servers using protocols which can be accessed by client programs on your computer.

WengoPhone is a VoIP client, less well known than Skype, but which provides more or less the same functionality, while being multiplatform, open source, and using standard VoIP protocols called H.323 and SIP.

The information available in Wikipedia is somewhat dated, however, the project has evolved since it's first appearance in 2005, to become a stable and complete application. One word of caution though – WengoPhone doesn't work very well with low bandwidth Internet connections, such as dial up modems. You'll need to have an IDSL or ADSL high speed connection.

Apart from advising you on choosing from the enormous amount of software available, and showing you how to install, and uninstall the software, the guide also provides pragmatic information on using the programs.

The goal of these tutorials is to provide you with just enough knowledge to make you reasonably competent in the shortest time. They also serve as a basis to become proficient in using one or more of the programs, should you wish to invest further time on them, by offering pointers to more detailed information available on the Internet.

WengoPhone is the guide's choice of VoIP client. It provides voice and video conferencing over the Internet. This tutorial will explain how to make contact with other users, make voice telephone calls, and exchange video.

The following are the download links for all the software discussed in the guide. It can be used to collect all the necessary files on to your hard disk before you use the articles to install the software. It also serves as a reference to the latest versions, which may differ from the versions shown in the various guide articles, as those articles are updated somewhat less frequently.

The downloads are presented as a set of tables, one for each section of the guide. Each table gives the program name, links to the web site and where you can download the software, the current version number, which files to download, and the associated guide article.