Would it be possible to have Phoner register simultaneously with several SIP providers? It was a feat that X-Lite achieved in the past, but has now been withdrawn from their current version.

It could be that I am greedy, but I have four SIP providers for different purposes. Phoner is my favourite because it doesn't need a registry installation and so happily travels between PCs on a USB stick without distress.

Hi Heiko,

yes it would be a great idea to have multiple simultanous SIP registrations. You would be able to receive calles from any provider. Outgoing calls should go to a preselected provider, which could also be ISDN (TAPI, CAPI or SIP).

What do you think to associate each contact in the phone book with a preferred provider? Least-cost-routing?

Maybe you will find some time to implement it on a long rainy weekend 

Regards,
Michael

When travelling, I use only hotels which provide in-room internet, in order to be able to make calls almost or completely for free. For this, I have several VoIP providers (Betamaxes) entered into my PhonerLite. 
Works like a charm, except that these guys do not provide VoiP-in numbers and though I can call out, I cannot be reached.
I have just registered with sipgate.de, who, at least in Germany, issue VoIP in numbers, which also works great in PhonerLite, so I am now able to receive calls.

Here is the catch!
My PhonerLite receives a call only when sipgate is registered. 
Now, since I make my VoIP-out calls with one of the other providers (e.g. justcoip.com, who provide free calls to Germany), that is the provider normally selected and thus registered in PhonerLite, and so incomming sipgate calls do not get though.
Is there any way around that?
Like beuss wrote above:
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Can you give us an updated perspective, if and when such a feature will be available?
Is this feature perhaps already implemented in PhonerLite?

Thanks

Hi JB,
you must have misread what I wrote.
I concur, that Phoner routes outgoing calls via the one registered provider only.
What I miss, is being able to RECEIVE calls via any of the other - unregistered - providers.
How is one to know, via which provider the next call will come in?
Unless one is clairvoyant (hellsehend), one will miss most calls.

There may be an easy workaround, at least in my case.
When travelling, I deflect my calls to a Sipgate number, which rings only when Sipgate is registered.
I make my outgoing calls for free via one of the Betamaxes, depending on which country I call to. As you know, Betamaxes do not provide regional VoIP-IN numbers (in Germany) and are therefore useless for incoming calls, hence Sipgate. Thus, I miss all of the incoming Sipgate calls.
Question to the Admin
Is it possible to have 2 instances of Phoner(Lite) running concurrently? One copy has all the Betamaxes available for outgoing calls. The other copy, which allways starts with Windows, has only Sipgate installed and therefore always registered, ready to receive calls.

Another solution would be to mark one of the  providers as "default" and revert to this default after 5(?) minutes of inactivity

Yeah, a feature, to have multiple SIP accounts running in parallel and selecting one for outgoing calls would be fine. The user interface would be identical as now in PhonerLite, but it would listen on all accounts in parallel.

By the way: It is not even needed to have a separate UDP port binding for each account, all of them can listen on 5060 or whatever, the software can then decide, which account is affected. In general its quite simple: Send REGISTER messages to multiple providers (all from same port).

Why not make the software open source, if you have no time anymore?