Re: SIP services and softphones: what do you guys use?
On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 12:43 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:02:50 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get rid of proprietary Skype and two of my most important
> > contacts are willing to give SIP a try. We all installed Ekiga and
> > signed up for ~@ekiga.net SIP addresses, but the sound quality was very
> > choppy and unusable. They are both on Windows.
> >
> > Is there an better softphone? Is there a better sip address service than
> > ekiga.net? Is there a better softphone for Windows than Ekiga?
>
> I use Ekiga as "softphone" with a USB headset from Plantronics. As SIP
> provider I use "12voip" (www.12voip.com), and works quite fine.
>
> Not for professional usage, though, I use it for calling my family and
> friends.
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
>
>
If I recall correctly, the question was about Windows solutions. Many
of those suggested are Linux only. I don't know about Ekiga but my
guess would be it is running on cygwin which introduces a considerable
shim between Ekiga and the native Windows IP stack. I would think that
could introduce some latency and some complexity. Something native like
might be much safer - John
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