Hi guys,
I've installed Skype-1.2.0.18 on my FC2 system. It worked out of the box. But the problem is that voice breaks a lot to such an extent that a decent conversation becomes impossible. I am NATed behind my own router. I've forwarded all ports above 1024 and allowed UDP on them. I have 64Kbps connection but the latency is high on my connection. I get more like 48-56Kbps speeds. As I understand Skype isn't very bandwidth efficient. Can someone point me to a better VoIP software or some hacks so that Skype plays nicely with my connection?
Thanks.
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 01:01:24PM +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Hi guys,
I've installed Skype-1.2.0.18 on my FC2 system. It worked out of the box. But the problem is that voice breaks a lot to such an extent that a decent conversation becomes impossible. I am NATed behind my own router. I've forwarded all ports above 1024 and allowed UDP on them. I have 64Kbps connection but the latency is high on my connection. I get more like 48-56Kbps speeds. As I understand Skype isn't very bandwidth efficient. Can someone point me to a better VoIP software or some hacks so that Skype plays nicely with my connection?
Skype is not free software. Shouldn't we be using ekiga instead?
Nagarjuna
Hi,
On 7/22/06, Nagarjuna G. nagarjun@gnowledge.org wrote:
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 01:01:24PM +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
I've installed Skype-1.2.0.18 on my FC2 system. It worked out of the so that Skype plays nicely with my connection?
Skype is not free software. Shouldn't we be using ekiga instead?
Another option being OpenWengo [1]. It is licenced under GPL and hence a free software. One can use the Wengo service [2] or any other SIP service. It has a whole lot of features.
[1] http://openwengo.org/ [2] http://www.wengo.com/
Cheers!
Pradeepto
On Sunday 23 July 2006 12:31, Pradeepto Bhattacharya wrote:
Another option being OpenWengo [1]. It is licenced underGPL and hence a free software. One can use the Wengo service [2] or any other SIP service. It has a whole lot of features.
[1] http://openwengo.org/ [2] http://www.wengo.com/
Does it work behind a proxy?
2006/7/23, Pradeepto Bhattacharya pradeeptob@gmail.com:
[1] http://openwengo.org/ [2] http://www.wengo.com/ Cheers!
You might wanna try Gizmo as well (the download section shows an older version for GNU/Linux and newer versions for Windows and mac) http://www.gizmoproject.com/download.php
Regards Praveen
On 7/24/06, प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A) pravi.a@gmail.com wrote:
You might wanna try Gizmo as well (the download section shows an older version for GNU/Linux and newer versions for Windows and mac) http://www.gizmoproject.com/download.php
It's freeware, not Open Source/GPLed.
Their license, I think: http://www.gizmoproject.com/gizmo-end-user.html
Regards, Siddhesh
On 22/07/06 13:01 +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Hi guys,
I've installed Skype-1.2.0.18 on my FC2 system. It worked out of the box. But the problem is that voice breaks a lot to such an extent that a decent conversation becomes impossible. I am NATed behind my own router. I've forwarded all ports above 1024 and allowed UDP on them. I have 64Kbps connection but the latency is high on my connection. I get more like 48-56Kbps speeds. As I understand Skype isn't very bandwidth efficient. Can someone point me to a better VoIP software or some hacks so that Skype plays nicely with my connection?
Skype (and most current VoIP software) is extremely bandwidth efficient, unlike bittorrent. However, voice traffic doesn't like congested links (increases jitter) or latency.
No software or traffic engineering can rectify your high latency problem. I recommend moving to a low latency connection with lower congestion to solve this issue.
Devdas Bhagat
On Saturday 22 July 2006 17:37, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
No software or traffic engineering can rectify your high latency problem. I recommend moving to a low latency connection with lower congestion to solve this issue.
lets not get into my connection... i cant help it. my connection sucks and i dont have alternatives. and u know i'm a bit sensitive about ISPs in India >_<
No other solution? :O
On 7/23/06, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
lets not get into my connection... i cant help it. my connection sucks and i dont have alternatives. and u know i'm a bit sensitive about ISPs in India >_<
Please don't get started with the ISP's again please! :-)
On Saturday 22 July 2006 18:45, Sanket Medhi wrote:
On 7/23/06, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
lets not get into my connection... i cant help it. my connection sucks and i dont have alternatives. and u know i'm a bit sensitive about ISPs in India >_<
Please don't get started with the ISP's again please! :-)
lol i was going to :P
btw, does ekiga work behind a proxy? any ideas?
Ekiga works fine everywhere! It has full NAT support too, with something called STUN.
On Saturday 22 July 2006 20:45, Sanket Medhi wrote:
Ekiga works fine everywhere! It has full NAT support too, with something called STUN.
NAT and Proxies are different things :P. Besides, Ekiga is giving me a whole lot of trouble installing on my FC2 system :/ I do have it running fine on my FC5 system but my friend whos using Mandrake is behind a proxy and can't get it to connect! :(
On 7/23/06, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
I do have it running fine on my FC5 system but my friend whos using Mandrake is behind a proxy and can't get it to connect! :(
Connect it to you?
On Saturday 22 July 2006 21:54, Sanket Medhi wrote:
On 7/23/06, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
I do have it running fine on my FC5 system but my friend whos using Mandrake is behind a proxy and can't get it to connect! :(
Connect it to you?
He can't login to ekiga... :(
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