XMPP comm/asterisk net/teamspeak (client and server) pidgin Coccinella Gizmo Jabbin Non-XMPP wip/sipwitch wip/py27-shtoom wip/twinkle CounterPath X-Lite net/Ekiga Kphone wip/linphone WengoPhone SpeakFreely Sjphone SIPSet Of the mentioned VoIP packages with XMPP support, Jabbin is what I think best. It gave the best hearing quality and worked on a range of different neworks and speeds without ruining the sound quality. Its ability to send and receive files at such incredible speeds was also the best, with its only competitor being skype in this scenario, and it was much faster than skype. Worked well on Ubuntu 12.1 however lagged a little on Windows 7 How I Installed it in Ubuntu 1. Downloaded the official package b) That did not work 2. Downloaded the already tweaked package here: http://code.google.com/p/jabbin-svn-pack-kubuntu/downloads/detail?name=jabbin_0.0.20080626-0ubuntu0%7Erzr18_i386.deb&can=2&q= 3. setup account 4. Opened connection tab in application and set the following options a) Selected: i) Use SSL encryption (to server) ii) Ignore SSL Warnings iii) Send Keep-alive packets iv) Manually Specify Server Host/Port b) changed the host to: talk.google.com c) changed port to: 5223 5. went to Misc tab and set the rescource to: Jabbin Worked fine afterwards