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Old October 14, 2008, 06:24 PM
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Question Voice server for LAN gaming?
Are there any voice over IP servers available for LAN games?

Now that I have two good computers I’m looking for a way to play
LAN games and have voice between players instead of the text entry.
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Old October 14, 2008, 06:38 PM
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Old October 14, 2008, 06:41 PM
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God no! Teamspeak is TERRIBLE! lol

Just use vent; run a server instance on one of the computers!


Not that Ventrilo is very good either, but it's light years better than TS!
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Old October 14, 2008, 07:04 PM
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God no! Teamspeak is TERRIBLE! lol

Just use vent; run a server instance on one of the computers!


Not that Ventrilo is very good either, but it's light years better than TS!
QFT, after using TS for years I made the switch to Vent and noticed much better quality/ping. IMO it's just a better program, plain and simple.

If you need a hosting service some well know ones are Darkstarllc, Typefrag, Nationvoice. I have had good luck with both Darkstar and Typefrag.
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Old October 15, 2008, 04:07 AM
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ok, thanks guys, I'll give those a shot.
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Old October 15, 2008, 07:43 AM
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Our clan actually uses skype now.

We started out with TS , went to Vent .....

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Old October 15, 2008, 07:48 AM
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I have a 50 person vent server, since I've recently contemplated setting up a HWC COD4 server I thought "Hey, why not open a HWC vent server?" I really need to find time to sit down and figure out costs. COD5 is out soon too and with Starcraft coming up there is a definite potential to expand the HWC community; anyways this is off topic I just realized.. but it's definitely been on my mind lately, I wonder if the HWC gods above would approve and how much interest there would be!
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Old October 15, 2008, 11:50 AM
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What's skype like for group calls and can you get away with not paying for a server?
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Old October 15, 2008, 12:01 PM
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I have a 50 person vent server, since I've recently contemplated setting up a HWC COD4 server I thought "Hey, why not open a HWC vent server?.... "
Will said server be in Toronto or somewhere else in the continent? Just curious about pings.
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Old October 15, 2008, 12:07 PM
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My current one is in Montreal, the company has Vancouver and Toronto ones available but a lot of the time they are both on backorder. The pings are great in Montreal, I like to keep my host servers here just because it protects us more, not that we do anything on the servers but we have a higher standard to protecting personal data in Canada than the US. I would host them in Canada unless I absolutely could not get good pings. But in all my years experience I've never had an problems.
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