[HacktionLab] Open Source / federated VOIP?

[Furtim gzikskud]

My experience with Ostel and jitsi is that it just works, video was a
little iffy, but I managed to teach some very non techs to use it and we we
were sharing the same DSL connection!  We tested both the Android and
MAC/windows versions.   Not sure if we did it over mobile network.

Mark

On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 1:56 PM, helen varley jamieson <
helen at creative-catalyst.com> wrote:

>  jit.si is very simple to use & browser-based. i've also had some
> experience with freeswitch but i didn't set it up & i think that was
> complicated; it functioned well for a time & then it broke somehow.
>
> h : )
>
>
> On 25/12/14 3:05 23AM, U wrote:
>
> Also interested in this. Have tried RedPhone (android) which is okay, but
> calls drop a lot and the quality isn't great. TextSecure, the companion
> encrypted chat app is pretty good.
>
>  Was looking at testing Jitsi next for VoIP.
>
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 12:47 AM, <nmd at riseup.net> wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>> I was just wondering what other list members thoughts were on the current
>> state of open source Voice over IP software?
>>
>> I've tried the range of user end software that are available for this on linux
>> for SIP or XMPP (through the debian /ubuntu repositories) as well as some of
>> the clients that are available for android (through F-droid) - ekiga, empathy,
>> telepathy,pidgin; lumicall, csipsimple, etc... with very little success. I
>> think I managed to get an audio call working only once with my brother, which
>> was an empathy - empathy or empathy - pidgin connection I think).  My brother
>> says he's had some success using Pidgin with riseup.net and XMPP.
>>
>> Have also tried several servers: riseup.net and jabber.org for xmpp, and ostel.co (guardian project) and ekiga.net for SIP; haven't been particularly
>> systematic in testing these but still little success.
>>
>> I'm not particularly techie (though maybe more than most of the public) and
>> haven't really been able to fiddle a lot round with settings as I don't
>> particularly understand them. However, I get the impression that despite these
>> manuals  suggesting fairly simple set up, these technologies are not really
>> ready for general use. Secure video and audio calls are an important method of
>> communication, and ideally there would be some protocols and clients that work
>> satisfactorily out of the box, and that I would feel able to recommend to
>> others, with less knowledge or interest in setting up these things. It seems
>> to me currently that if such protocols and cleints exist, I haven't found
>> them, and so currrently can't recommend anything to 'beginners'. Perhaps there
>> are others I haven't tried, or I have just been particularly unfortunate?
>>
>> Has anyone had more positive experiences of using SIP/ XMPP? What, if
>> anything, would you recommend for people with less technological ability, or
>> commitment, to try?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nick
>>
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