[Ekiga-list] sound quality

[Kevin Hunter]

Hello List,

Given recent mention that I'm using an out of date version of Ekiga
(2.0.3) because it's what Ubuntu currently has in it's repositories,
what are my options in terms of sound and quality?  No matter which
codec I put at the top of the list in Preferences, I seem to get very
choppy sound.  When I dial the 500 at ekiga.net address, it connects, but
both the woman's voice and my own are very muddled and hard to hear.  It
clears up for a few seconds after about 5 seconds, but then returns to
choppy, low quality.  (Juxtaposed with the Skype client that I just
tried which gets very good quality of sound, so I'm certain it's not my
hardware/driver.)

Is there something not written in the docs that I'm missing?

Thanks,

Kevin