I travel a lot on business and want an easy way to call home.
What I would like to do is use VOIP from my laptop to contact my desktop at home and then dial out on the phone line usually used for fax calls in my home office.
I don’t need to have incoming calls or to be able to do anything other than to call my home desktop and then initiate an outside dialed call.
Then I can call family and friends at home for free while on the road.
Can anyone tell me how to set this up? I am thinking that it should just be a software application and that I would not need any more hardware. I think that I may require a VPN but am thinking about setting that up anyway.
I have a cable modem with a Linksys router and its native firewall installed. I would like to limit the ability to connect to just my laptop, perhaps by using MAC addresses or some sort of password protection.
For security I would like to be able to