Advice on getting Teamspeak

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2006-08-14 09:51am

My guild on World of Warcraft is looking towards getting a relaible team speak going for raids and PVP. Can anyone recommend a good client and how to go about setting one up? One guy on the guild suggested using Skype as it doesn't use too much bandwidth. Any help would be much appreciated.

Decue · Post by **Decue** » 2006-08-14 09:58am

Well, my guild used ventrilo v2.1.3 that worked very well, just get someone the set up a server (can't help you there, sorry).

Azazal · Post by **Azazal** » 2006-08-14 10:04am

Some friends and I have been using TS for well over a year, and we have not had a problem. If you have a list of question, PM me and I can pass them on if you want.

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2006-08-14 11:00am

From what I understand, the older version of Ventrilio mentioned is better, although Teamspeak has a feature to record the conversation if you want to do that. If you have no use for that, find that version of Ventrilio (not the newer version, which sucks)

Rekkon · Post by **Rekkon** » 2006-08-14 11:23am

From what I understand, the older version of Ventrilio mentioned is better

Seconded. My group used the old Ventrilo for quite a while, though nowdays we tend toward Teamspeak. For the primary feature, I never noticed much of a difference. I still have the old Ventrilo client and server files somewhere.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-08-14 11:27am

Another vote for Ventrilo, the only problem is finding a person with enough upload to host the server by himself, though I don't know much about Irelands broadband situation.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2006-08-14 04:00pm

I'd vote for Vent, and definitly the older version. Teamspeak, I've had some weird problem with TS because of non existant help when your server goes crappy.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2006-08-14 04:26pm

I've had few problems with either TS or Vent. Though from my understanding, TS can offer higher sound quality relative to bandwidth as compared to Vent.

Geodd · Post by **Geodd** » 2006-08-14 06:38pm

Yet another vote for Ventrilo, I've always felt that the sound quality is better with Ventrilo, but I understand this varies wildly depending on the codec the server uses

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2006-08-15 10:24am

Yeah, it's all based on codec...advantage of TS is that it dials down far enough to be used over dialup, whereas Vent chokes. I'm curious though...what's the beef with the newer versions of Vent?

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2006-08-15 10:31am

I prefer TS over vent but both seem alright

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2006-08-16 03:29pm

Another vote for Teamspeak here.

http://www.goteamspeak.com/