WEBRTC phone vs softphone

[scicali]

We have a lot of remote agents (in smart working) that use webrtc phone, some agent report random choppy audio: 3 or 4 times over a 5 minutes call. If they use softphone on same server, issues disappears.
Due to the increase in internet traffic, the agents' internet connection deteriorated slightly. Some packet loss or lagged.

So softphones can handle better network issues than webrtc phones? Or is it a configuration problem? Obviously I have never tested this scenario before..

[williamconley]

1) Welcome to the Party!

2) As you are obviously new here, I have some suggestions to help us all help you:

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3) Are there other differences involved aside from the WebRTC vs softphone? Different Codec perhaps? I do note that most soft phones have a generous amount of configuration options with defaults set to values that have been tested over many revisions before settling on their present default values, and WebRTC is fairly young. So it may be that configuration options could be toyed with or that certain configuration options don't even exist yet.

4) But I will say that if you have the ability to install soft phones, do it. There are lots of free ones and it does tend to add a certain amount of stability, even though it tends to add some complexity and seem not quite so "cool". lol

5) Also, different versions of Asterisk handle WebRTC better than others ... but we have no version information available. so.