[MLB-WIRELESS] Skype

[Jamie Moir]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Fenn Bailey wrote:

> > So 64kbps, although currently standard for voice, is probably
> > not the minimum for voice. Current codecs are better than that :-)
> >
>
> They are indeed. From memory, only G.711 is 64kbps. G.729A/b is 16kbps,
> G.723.1 is 5.3kbps or 6.4kbps.

64k is so 5 minutes ago =))

> >From memory iLBC and Speex are also quite low. From my experience,
> latency/jitter and the effects of no QoS are the biggest reasons for
> VOIP being unusable/inconsistant - todays broadband is well and truly
> capable of handling toll quality (whatever that is) voice calls (at
> least within australia).

Flogged pipes on some adsl services dont really help, so I guess dont buy
too cheap.

> I did a test calling myself from a Firefly phone (via freshtel) to my
> own mobile and the latency was undetectable, FAR less than <snip>

Back to freshtel, Ill be interested to see their phones when they're
available. When they get around to making it you will have a linux-based
asterisk-native device, could be good. At last wrd they were a bit of a
next year product.

Jamie

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