Kastus wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 08:03:31PM +0100, John Lamb wrote:
I'm looking for ideas on what's likely to work well.
Take a look at asterisk (http://voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk) It's included with SUSE Pro.
Any recommendations for servers for SIP/H323/ILS?
I use Skype (on SUSE and Mac OSX) for computer to computer calls and asterisk with voipjet.com account for calls to regular phones.
With asterisk, I tried couple of soft phones but ended up with Sipura SPA-2000 (http://voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+phone+SPA-2000) Sound quality is much better.
How/where should I set up an account? SkypeOUT has been quite hit and miss, though recently I had a long call UK to Ireland that went well.
What works best: GnomeMeeting/LinPhone/KPhone/Skype?
I haven't used gnomemetting in a while, but going way back it was fine.
Skype works pretty well, does not require any holes in the firewall (unlike SIP) but sound quality sometimes is not the greatest. I tried SkypOut too, but found asterisk+voipjet to be a much superior solution to make calls to regular phones.
An ex-colleague recently started using a USB handset with XP on Skype and there was superb audio quality compared to when he was using mic/spkr.
With asterisk, you can just set up a link between asterisk servers if you are in control of computers on both sides of your connection and then you don't need any VOIP providers.
I've reasonable hardware (Logitech headset and webcam, 2.4GHz P4) but limited bandwidth (512Kbit ADSL is the best we can get just now, probably rising in the next few months).
I use 1.5/128 ADSL which seems to be enough for one call at a time through asterisk.
Regards, -Kastus
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