On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:26:34 +1000
Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>   If I do an apt-cache search I find many softphone packages using
> SIP:
> 
>   ekiga
>   linphone
>   kphone
>   twinkle
>   wengophone  
> 
> Has anyone locally used these with, say, mynetfone.com.au??  Is any
> one of them head and shoulders above the rest in terms of usability,
> speech quality, low CPU-usage, etc?  What are people's experiences?

I haven't used them with mynetfone.com.au, but I have used them with
Sipphone, Gizmo, Free World Dialup and several others that I don't now
remember.

I have never had any luck with linphone. Kphone (last time I used it)
didn't handle DTMF tones. Wengophone is OK.

Ekiga is the king of them all. It allows registration with multiple
servers and I have found it very reliable. I use it with an iMic usb
sound card. Ekiga is also particularly good at maintaining STUN
connections with no drama.

Should mention Xten: it's not free (as in speech) software, but it also
allows multiple registrations and seems to work well. Ugly interface on
Linux though.

I haven't got a videocam, so can't comment on Ekiga's video functions.

HTH,
Alan

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