Robert
I think you've all but proven the issue, if the hard phone works - same
server, same internet connection, same everything - except - the phone
itself (replaced Ekiga with this phone temporarily) and there is no
delay - thus - no echo, the PC is the issue.
Exactly how to track the delay
Robert,
It's not a bandwidth issue.
There are two main sources of echo in telephony networks: acoustic echo
and line echo. Acoustic echo is generated on any phone (IP phone or
analog) when there is feedback from the speaker to the microphone.
This is particularly noticeable on many speaker
After fiddling around a little bit, I think the real problem is not so much
echo as latency, and I think the problem is probably with the Ekiga/Jaunty
combination. I set the system audio settings and the Ekiga audio settings
both to the same thing, in this case to Nvidia/Alsa (my sound card is
I have read previous posts on this subject, but I still cannot resolve
the problem. I use Ekiga to make PC-to-Phone calls. I use a headset.
I am running Ubuntu Jaunty beta, with PulseAudio. When I make calls, I
can hear fine, with no echo, but the people I am talking to complain of
a very bad
