missing pics and no calls

Hello, this is my first time using anything
voip, so please be forgiving,
I got an account on ekiga and I tried to do
an echo test. The window opend and closed.
I tried to contact you and again, the contact
window opened and closed.
I don't understand what's going on.
Also many pictures don't display, or rather,
they show the broken image picture.
I'm useing gentoo ekiga version 4.0.0

Thanks