Re: [SLUG] Best Linux soft-phone?

[Alan L Tyree <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:34:47 +1000
Simon Wong <linux@xxxxxxxxx> 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!
> 
> 
> 
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