help wit skype usb phone please.

Hey guys.

I bought two skypeout lines when they were 14.99 for my business. I bought one skypein line.

The skypein is setup at my desktop computer, the skypeout is setup at a laptop.

I bought two xact brand voip phones at walmart. 29 bucks each or whatever.

It does the basic job for me.

I’ve noticed one thing with these phones.

All my PC sounds and music play through the skype phone speaker, not my computer speakers.

Same deal with the laptop.

I’ve tried all the tutorials, changing audio to the sound card, then voice to the usb phone, but thats not working at all.

Now I’ve got it to the point where I pickup the skype voip phone, hear a dialtone, then I press one button on the phone, and it throws the sound to the computer speakers, and kills it from the usb phone.

This is making me nuts.

I don’t want to have to setup a dedicated computer running skype, but if I have to , I will.

you have to setup the phone for voice only, I am not sure where the option is offhand though.

I did that.

The fix ended up to be to update the skypemate utility to the latest version.

version 3 worked fine, the 2.x that it came with did not work.