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For an excellent and disruption-free experience I use Mumble and if I have to WebRTC, but the browser experience isn't as stable, performant and reliable. Nothi
by cm3 11y ago
For an excellent and disruption-free experience I use Mumble and if I have to WebRTC, but the browser experience isn't as stable, performant and reliable. Nothing beats Mumble if video isn't a requirement. You can join free Mumble servers, host your own or rent a server. It's open source, so you're not at the whim of a company and integration with your operating system is much better.
update 1: https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Features https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Features
It has encryption which cannot be disabled and the advanced audio features make it well suited for reliable and pleasant day to day use. It's low-latency and instead of a centrally managed contact database like most commercial services have Mumble uses certificates for authentication and identification of your friends across servers.
update 2: There are alternative server implementations, one in C and another one in Go, meant to run on OpenWRT in terms of hardware requirements.
- arca_vorago 11y agoI run mumble as well, it really is awesome as long as you dont need video, like you said. I constantly tell people about it, because I refuse to use a non foss app for communication on my pc. (Ventrillo, teamspeak, etc) I have poked around with Jitsi but its setup is too complicated for normal users.
- cookiecaper 11y agoMumble/Murmur is awesome, but I was always having issues with it. It seems to take a lot of fiddling on the client and server sides before you can get a good connection that works. It needs a lot of polish before it will be usable for mainstream.
- pfooti 11y agoI use mumble for a lot of informal communication stuff, I installed a server on a $5 digital ocean droplet, and it works quite well.