[Asterisk-Users] Skype vs. an Xlite registered to Asterisk

[Guillermo Salas M]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 15:50 -0600, Michael Graves wrote:
> I second this...as a road warrior myself I find too many places where
> SIP clients just won't work. So I rely on Firely over IAX2 which has
> been 100% reliable.
> 

I'm using idefisk softphone with iLBC on my Debian roadwarrior laptop
and works very nice.

> Also, John Todd has been using the PSGW Skype<>SIP gateway software in
> new and different ways. Perhaps that's an option.
> 
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:30:07 +0100, asterisk wrote:
> 
> >Hi
> >I have good results in using, the old very (free) of firefly (IAX2), 
> >with g729!
> >
> >rgds
> >Jesper Langpap
> >
> >hugolivude wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a bunch of road warriors who I've set up with Xlite clients.  
> >> Unfortunately the sound quality has been intermittent at best.  
> >> Sometimes it's great other times completely unusable.  When it's bad 
> >> one usually hears harsh static when the other party speaks or their 
> >> voice gets "clipped" to static if they speak too loudly.
> >>
> >> Many of these users have migrated to Skype – much to my chagrin!  I'd 
> >> like to get them back using a SIP client so they can take advantage of 
> >> all Asterisk can offer.
> >>
> >> Anyone else had trouble with voice quality with Xlite?  Any work arounds?
> >>
> >> I was thinking about trying an Xlite client that can support G729.  
> >> Anyone had experience with that?  Does it significantly improve voice 
> >> quality?
> >>
> >> I also read that SJ Phone is better than XLite, but is it really the 
> >> client application that makes the biggest difference or the codec?  
> >> Perhaps it's a combination or something entirely different?  Anyone 
> >> with experience with an SJ Phone and G729 codec?
> >>
> >> Any suggestions welcome!
> >>
> >> Yours,
> >> Hugh
> >>
> >> P.S> Asterisk 1.2 on Redhat 9.0
> >>
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