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Re: [PLUG] SIP SoftPhone Recommendations
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How bout google voice and video chat, though I know little about it.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=100173
While on VOIP, I always think of the "speak freely" software that came out some 10-20 years ago. It ran on Unix and Windows, and had all kinds of features. You could control the codecs and manually control encryption, all from a gui interface. Some of the codecs used an incrdible small bandwidth. A friend and I could talk over a 56 modem, while browsing the internet at the same time! The slow codecs would make the voice sound a little scary I guess, but the articulation was perfectly clear. I have yet see a free VOIP that to me was as nice as this product, though the product did not do video, and was also somewhat broken by broadband and NAT routers, as it did not use a relay server of any kind.
----- Original Message ----
> From: Casey Bralla <MailList@NerdWorld.org>
> To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 1:37:58 PM
> Subject: [PLUG] SIP SoftPhone Recommendations
>
> I want to start using a software-based video phone to call my family and
> friends (who use a mix of Linux and windows) and am looking for a software
> recommendation.
>
> So far I've tried Ekiga (looks good in Linux, but the Windows client bombed on
> me) and Skype (works great in Windows, but buggy in Linux).
>
>
> Anybody have a recommendation?
>
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> Casey Bralla
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