Re: communication issues + What does the STUN switch do?

[Сергей Петров]

Thank you for the answer. I tried to enable STUN (stun.sipnet.ru:3478 for
example) but didn't saw any difference. Will try to find public TURN server
and continue my experiments.

ср, 20 мая 2020 г. в 23:37, Dmitry Alexandrov <address@hidden>:

> Сергей Петров <address@hidden> wrote:
> > sorry if I misaddressed.
>
> No, you did not.  This is _supposed_ to be the best place to get the most
> competent answer to a well-formulated question about GNU Jami.
>
> Alas, this is far from reality.  If anyone casts a rare glance at what is
> going on here, thatʼs rather not a member of Jami team but some passers-by
> like me, who regards Jami as another obscure nonstandard communication
> network, that is of course better than, say, Skype by being
> freedom-friendly, but better be not advertised much nevertheless.
>
> > Вижу русские имена в переписке – было бы проще общаться на русском.
>
> Feel free to do that, if you do not mind to narrow your audience ever more.
>
> > Me and my friend are trying to use Jami for communication and often have
> issues. Sometimes we can’t exchange pictures, sometimes even text messages
> not works. Video call succeeded only once and without sound on windows
> side. Usually timed out.
> >
> > I use windows client, my friend use android. We a both behind NAT.
>
> Looks like turn.jami.net does not provide you a good service.  Try
> another relay, if you have one at hand.
>
> > Second question about STUN. Is there any reason to add(and enable) STUN
> server in settings if TURN server already enabled?
>
> Thatʼs a good question.  Indeed, the current UI provide a switch to
> _enable_ STUN independently from TURN, which does not make much sense to
> me.  The only explanation, I could surmise, about why there is such a
> switch, is that it is to _force_ some specific STUN-only server.
>