On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:34:47 +1000 Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 07:48 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > 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. > > I have used it recently and call quality was adequate. Maybe I needed > to spend more time tweaking. A lot depends on the codec you use. I have had very mixed results with speex, generally very good results with iLBC. > > > 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 use this regularly now as the call quality is significantly *better* > than a std Telstra phone line as it has the G711U codec. More > bandwidth, I think maybe up to 80Kb (bits, I can never remember if > it's a big or little b!). Another good free (beer) but not free (speech) is Sjphone: http://www.sjlabs.com/ I used this phone connected to a local Asterisk and found it a great combination. > > A very good STUN server is Counterpath's (the company behind xten) > stun.counterpath.net. > > You will need to play around with SIP port forwarding for best > results. > > Enjoy! > > > > -- > Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
