Suggestions for VoIP software on lenny please
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From: Rob Owens on 11 Feb 2010 18:50 On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:35:38PM +0000, George wrote: > I'm away from home right now and need VoIP to communicate with my > loved ones. Skype works, but it's a CPU hog, has an awful GUI, it > messes up with the soundcard, it's extremely buggy and thus a pain to > use. I've tried Gizmo, which sorta works but it's unusable because the > sound is horrible, to the point that you can't tell whether there's a > human or a malfunctioning robot at the other end. Linphone and Ekiga > don't work at all. > I use Ekiga on Debian Lenny 64- and 32-bit, and Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit. What exactly is the problem you're having with it? -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: George on 11 Feb 2010 20:00 On 2/11/10, Rob Owens <rowens(a)ptd.net> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:35:38PM +0000, George wrote: >> I'm away from home right now and need VoIP to communicate with my >> loved ones. Skype works, but it's a CPU hog, has an awful GUI, it >> messes up with the soundcard, it's extremely buggy and thus a pain to >> use. I've tried Gizmo, which sorta works but it's unusable because the >> sound is horrible, to the point that you can't tell whether there's a >> human or a malfunctioning robot at the other end. Linphone and Ekiga >> don't work at all. >> > I use Ekiga on Debian Lenny 64- and 32-bit, and Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit. > What exactly is the problem you're having with it? > I'm trying to call someone who's on Windows. My call appears to reach but there's no sound going across. I can hear nothing, they can hear nothing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: George on 11 Feb 2010 20:10 On 2/11/10, Henning Follmann <hfollmann(a)itcfollmann.com> wrote: > I don't know if that falls into what you are looking for. > I have a asterisk server running at home and in the office. Localy I > have SIP phones (CISCO 7XXX) with that. I've tried reading on asterisk, but I don't understand what half of the terminology means, and I don't want to know either. All I want is to launch an application and be able to call, like I used to do with Google Talk on Windows. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Klaus Wolf on 12 Feb 2010 02:20 Hi, perhaps kphone will suit your suggestions greatings and a nice day klaus Am Freitag, den 12.02.2010, 01:00 +0000 schrieb George: > On 2/11/10, Henning Follmann <hfollmann(a)itcfollmann.com> wrote: > > > I don't know if that falls into what you are looking for. > > I have a asterisk server running at home and in the office. Localy I > > have SIP phones (CISCO 7XXX) with that. > > I've tried reading on asterisk, but I don't understand what half of > the terminology means, and I don't want to know either. All I want is > to launch an application and be able to call, like I used to do with > Google Talk on Windows. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Henning Follmann on 12 Feb 2010 08:30
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:58:55AM +0000, George wrote: > On 2/11/10, Rob Owens <rowens(a)ptd.net> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:35:38PM +0000, George wrote: > >> I'm away from home right now and need VoIP to communicate with my > >> loved ones. Skype works, but it's a CPU hog, has an awful GUI, it > >> messes up with the soundcard, it's extremely buggy and thus a pain to > >> use. I've tried Gizmo, which sorta works but it's unusable because the > >> sound is horrible, to the point that you can't tell whether there's a > >> human or a malfunctioning robot at the other end. Linphone and Ekiga > >> don't work at all. > >> > > I use Ekiga on Debian Lenny 64- and 32-bit, and Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit. > > What exactly is the problem you're having with it? > > > > I'm trying to call someone who's on Windows. My call appears to reach > but there's no sound going across. I can hear nothing, they can hear > nothing. > If one of the parties is behind a static NAT, it will most likely not work. It's a limitation of the SIP signaling. -- Henning Follmann | hfollmann(a)itcfollmann.com it consultant | www.itcfollmann.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org |