Hello Raju
It will be great help for others , if you send a HOWTO and the
problems u faced while doing this to the mailing list,People like me can
get much help out of it
expecting a posting from u soon
Thanks
Cool
Raju Mathur wrote:
> Thanks for all the tips, folks. I finally ended up downloading Speak
> Freely for Linux, getting my brother to get the Windows version and
> tried out chatting. We chatted for about an hour, with no major
> problems. The issues I noticed were:
>
> - Voice is delayed by something like 2-3 seconds each way. I wonder
> why, since the packet ping time is quite low (by dial-up standards)
>
> - My bro's computer wasn't able to handle full duplex very well when
> both of us were speaking simultaneously. Well, it's Windows and who
> knows what the driver for the card is written to do? Apart from that
> we could keep our mikes open with no noticeable loss of quality.
>
> - Whenever fetchmail would start up to download my mail the remote
> voice would start breaking up -- contention for bandwidth on the
> link. I solved the problem by either not listening at that time <g>
> or, if it was important, telling him to hold on for a few seconds.
>
> Connecting was a breeze: just give the IP/hostname of the remote
> computer and Speak Freely will start transmitting. You have to run
> the receiver program seperately on the Linux command line (or
> automatically through the GUI -- see under) to play recieved voice. I
> haven't yet investigated a way to receive from only one host at a
> time, though I think that should be possible with the Busy Signal
> option.
>
> In summary, Speak Freely with the default GSM encoding works quite
> well for informal chatting over a dial-up link. I've tried it to the
> US and to Canada (at early mornings/late evenings) and faced no
> significant issues.
>
> Speak Freely also support conferencing, a user database and data
> encryption (if you're likely to be discussing state secrets over the
> 'net... I was chatting about my niece's birthday, etc, so didn't feel
> the need for encryption ;-) I've tried IDEA encryption and the CPU
> bar on my PIII/500MHz/512MB secondary cache didn't even blink with
> both encryption and GSM encoding going on simultaneously.
>
> Speak Freely is available for Windows from:
> http://www.speakfreely.org/ and for Linux/Unix from:
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/unix . Apart from the features
> above, it also supports an answering machine, echo mode (for testing
> -- there's an echo server in Switzerland too which you can use to test
> your setup) and ICQ interoperability on Windows.
>
> The Linux version is command-line, but there's a contributed Tcl/Tk
> GUI wrapper (xspeakfree) which is what I use.
>
> Anyone who wants to chat at non-peak-traffic times can send me a mail,
> or a Yahoo message to kandalaya. If I don't reply to the message, it
> means I'm on SMS (message coming to the phone), so either wait or try
> later :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Raju
>
>
>>>>>>"Raju" == Raju Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>>
>
> Raju> Anyone tried doing voice over a slow (28.8) dialup? Is it
> Raju> possible, and if yes, what encoding should one be using?
>
>
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