Here are few tips that will help you to make long distance phone calls easily.You need to check relevant hardware like sound card, microphone jack and speaker. Look into your computer to see where you can connect your speakers. You will find different ports with symbols that indicate a place for speaker and microphone connection.
You can download free internet phone software from the service provider related to VOIP (voice over internet protocol) that is used to make long distance free phone calls over internet. Most popular VOIP service providers are Gizmo, skype, webPhone and Net2phone. You can choose any one of these for free phone calls. You can install the software and sign up for free account to get benefit from its services. Start the software, login there and follow the steps to configure your network setting and make a long distance test call to get surety that everything is working fine.
When you set up call configuration and test call successfully, you need to add email of your friends and family and tell them to do same thing for call set up. Connect speaker or headphone to the computer, go to VOIP website to install software and set up free call account.
For VOIP phone service, you must share user name with the person to whom you want to talk. It is how you can make long distance free phone calls. You click on dial button to connect your international friends and family members.
When you want to talk to your friend, you email him or her and decide a time to talk. You should make sure that both communicators are online and install phone service software on their computers.
You select the username of the person within contact list and click on the dial or call icon to establish a phone connection with him. They will accept your call when they see a message or hear ringing tone on their cell or computer. When a person is trying to call you, click on the answer icon to reply his or her call. In this way, you will be connected to your friend freely. This type of technology is called softphone, as it requires software and computer to make free long distance phone calls. You can also make a free international video calls with the installation of webcam with your computer.
You can also connect to people worldwide with the use of mobile phone and portable devices. You must install a relevant application on your mobile and need internet connection. Your friend also needs to repeat the same process to receive free call with the use of same service application. In this way, you can make free long distance landlines and mobile calls. These types of service do not require computer. You can move some portable devices everywhere you like. The examples of these devices are Vonage Pro and 1button to Wifi.