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by bentcorner 1143 days ago
I set up a matrix server with voice chat for myself and a friend but hosting the TURN server through NAT is tricky and (perhaps it was my stack) it didn't always connect (one of us would click the call button and the other person may or may not get a call notification, and clicking answer may or may not actually connect the call). I'm no expert so maybe there's something I did wrong.

Text chat + images work quite well though.
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jeroenhd 1143 days ago
TURN + NAT is always going to be a pain. If IPv6 isn't available to you or all of your friends, going for a VPS seems like the best choice to me. Just don't go for the extremely expensive server providers (i.e. Amazon) if you care about affordability.

This will cost a few dollars per month but it makes hosting UDP services becomes a lot easier.

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Eisenstein 1143 days ago
Rent a VPS. They are a few bucks a month.
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