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There's a program out there, SpeakFreely, that provides decent point to
point (and limited conferencing) voice communications over the internet. I
run the version for Widows, but it also available for Linux (never got my
sound card working on my old 486 Linux box). It does not support,
H.232..rather it uses other protocols. Source is available. I use it
extensively to communicate with a programmig buddy in Tennessee as the sound
quality is pretty good. It's also pretty good in-house on a dedicate LAN
when the other party is on different floor and using the inhouse phones is
bothersome.
The link, if I recall correctly, is simply http://speakfreely.org
Cheers,
Charles
-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of paul@dpagin.net
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 4:50 PM
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] VoIP
I've played with making phone calls over the Internet. I was calling
regular phones from my PC. It will work with a dial-up, but it was much
better with DSL. The speed of the PC and the quality of the sound card
also make a difference. A Sound Blaster Live! is good. I had a 700MHz
CPU at the time; that was good. Oh, I was doing this under Win98SE. I
forget what the software is called. It used to be free, but I think
they've started charging.
I know a guy that would call Pakistan the same way.
Now, I would start with Linux because a program running under Linux is
more likely to be standards-based. Try using it to call regular phones if
possible, then graduate to PC-to-PC connections, maybe between two Linux
PC's. Then, try to connect with a Windows PC. If you start with Windows,
you're more likely to have a problem on the Linux side (just the way
Micro$oft would want it to be).
> I'm starting to get interested in VoIP. I've been doing some Google
> searches and such. It seems that the VoIP standard is H.323 and that
> Microsoft Netmeeting supports this standard. This means, I presume,
> that one could do audio and/or video conferencing with a NetMeeting user
> from Linux as long as your Linux software supported the proper standard,
> like, say, Gnomemeeting. Is this true, in anyone's experience?
>
> Has anyone played around with audio (VoIP) and/or A/V conferencing? Any
> experiences, suggestions, URLs, etc? Any guidance is appreciated.
> Google searches aren't being overly helpful and I wanted to see if
> anyone had suggestions for software, etc. that they've had experience
> with.
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