VoIP App in 14.04

**coljohnhannibalsmith** · July 27th, 2015

Hello,

Can anyone recommend a VoIP app that works well in 14.04? My two primary concerns are price
and security. In terms of price free is better. For that I'd probably have to use Magic Jack, which
I don't think anyone's gotten to work under Wine. For security I'd like to keep to the call encryted
for as long as possible along its route. I've heard Skype has good encryption. My last concerns are
features. Obviously the more feature rich the product is the more useful it's likely to be in the
long run.

Thanks, Hannibal

**gdesilva** · July 28th, 2015

Give Ekiga a try...there are heaps of others in the Ubuntu Software Centre

**Bucky Ball** · July 28th, 2015

Thread moved to The Cafe.

Skype works for me. Enable the partner repositories and install from the repos (Software Centre).

**coljohnhannibalsmith** · July 28th, 2015

Thanks guys,

In the interim I found Nymgo in the software center. I installed it because it had 5 stars and boasted low rates.
I created an account and have made a test call. There's a noticeable delay, but it's tolerable. I'm going to
try the apps you've recommended sided by side to see which I like best. At the moment, I'm really interested
in finding out if there's any difference in the delay between these apps. I think the one that wins is going to be
the one that has the shortest propagation delay.

I'm going to mark this thread as solved; but I'm going to post my findings once I've finished with my evaluation.

Thanks, Hannibal

**coljohnhannibalsmith** · July 28th, 2015

Wow,

I thought I was going to mark this thread as solved; but that option is not available in thread tools.

**Bucky Ball** · July 28th, 2015

Originally Posted by coljohnhannibalsmith

Wow,

I thought I was going to mark this thread as solved; but that option is not available in thread tools.

That option is not available in the Cafe because discussion/opinion/recommendation threads have no solution or resolution, just more discussions/opinions/recommendations. They generally develop a life of their own.

**coljohnhannibalsmith** · July 28th, 2015

Originally Posted by Bucky Ball

That option is not available in the Cafe because discussion/opinion/recommendation threads have no solution or resolution, just more discussions/opinions/recommendations. They generally develop a life of their own.

I get it. I thought it might be something like that.

**monkeybrain20122** · July 28th, 2015

jitsi in case you are still reading this thread https://jitsi.org/

Wonder if anyone has tried Firefox hello?

**mastablasta** · July 29th, 2015

Originally Posted by monkeybrain20122

Wonder if anyone has tried Firefox hello?

i have, but a while ago. performance was really bad.

need to give Jitsi a try.

i use Skype as their call rates are low. But recently i had problems on WinXP. after their latest "improvement of my experience" it crashes the whole system in a strange way. you can't reset it with soft reset, there is no picture on monitor and you can still hear and talk normally. anyway it appears I am not the only one with the issue. I will try downgrading see if that works. no issues on Linux version or on 7 though. it could be a bit less resource hungry. still picture & sound is good (when it works) even when talking with relatives that live on the other side of the world and have bad mobile internet connection.

**monkeybrain20122** · July 29th, 2015

Originally Posted by mastablasta

i have, but a while ago. performance was really bad.

need to give Jitsi a try.

i use Skype as their call rates are low. But recently i had problems on WinXP. after their latest "improvement of my experience" it crashes the whole system in a strange way. you can't reset it with soft reset, there is no picture on monitor and you can still hear and talk normally. anyway it appears I am not the only one with the issue. I will try downgrading see if that works. no issues on Linux version or on 7 though. it could be a bit less resource hungry. still picture & sound is good (when it works) even when talking with relatives that live on the other side of the world and have bad mobile internet connection.

Why? you still on XP??!!

Anyway, the problem with voip is that your contacts have to be on the same channel so you would have to use skype if they do. jitsi is nice but you have to have your contacts using it or one of the supported channel to use it.