Jason: Hey there, it’s Jason here for McInTEC along with my good little body or pal or whatever you want it to call it assassin. How is it going assassin? Welcome to the show.
Assassin: Hello.
Jason: So today, we’re going to be talking to you about Ventrilo. Not Ventriloquism, Ventrilo. It is a client software server program that allows people that targeted the gamers to go in and talk to each other and so we’re going to start—we already have our own. We’re going to talk about Ventrilo but it is good for. There is hosting company’s out there where you can rent what is called a Ventrilo server and with that you can get so much slots.
Now, Ventrilo servers are relatively cheap. You can get for 10 users on typefrag.com is 10 users for 299. Now, they have a free user and a free user allows you up to eight users and Ventrilo has been around for a while. It is a pretty good program. I mean we use it to communicate, we use it to do our podcast and I mean it’s phenomenal. It is great. What you can call Ventrilo is a propriety voice over IP program much like your Skype, very, very similar to Skype or Team Speak if you’ve ever heard of Team Speak or Vonage. It is freeware like I said you can have up to eight users with your own server at home and it’s actually quite easy to configure or you can rent a server. Now, there’s some of the benefits downfalls to each—having your own server is great you can do what you want, you can have up to a max of eight users, other than that you have to rent the server if you want more than that. And what you can do is it customizes the way you want, do basically whatever you want.
Downfall is having your own server. The problem is that what will happen in this little sturdy—with the more people you have, the longer the pings, the more higher the pings. The higher the pings you can say the worst it is.
Now, that being said we used to have three users needs to have a good roughly about 200 ping average which is kind of high and then once we start getting up to seven right people doing podcast or just hang up server, it was really like in. There’s a few podcast on YouTube that you will watch and you will see that there is a log. And when we talk, there might be a two or three even five seconds delayed or even longer so you know that’s what happen to that. And sometimes people would be like, “Well, I just heard you say something and then I heard it come to speakers as delay.” Well, that’s all going to compression and using up your band with some stuff.
So, we decide to go out and we’ve rented our own—server on typefrag.com and we have 10 users and pay 599 a month for now, you can get it in bundles. You can have up to a thousand users anything as long as you’re going to pay for it. Now, the good things about having your own—or renting server is really low pings. Not necessarily for you depending on what you’re doing if you’re screaming and stuff on your scream which I do, your Ping is going to be around an average of a 150 to 250 ping. That’s good and the others will have probably a really lowered one depending on what you do. My average ping when I wasn’t screaming was only 16 constantly. And when I was talking and speaking and doing a compassionate it was only up to 13 so that’s practically nothing at all.
So, it’s good they’re cheap. We type frag, what I did is I set up our server actually yesterday which is December 10th 2007 and I put my paypal information. Most of them take our paypal. And when I click cement that I wanted to purchase these users and stuff like that what happened was my servers instantly up and running. I got an email, “This is your servers and your password. Here’s the password to go in the control panel. You configure it and everything.” So, it’s really, really, really good. It’s very good to use. I would say it is definitely a lot better than theme speak. It’s got better quality, high codex, excellent quality. So, what do you think of Ventrilo? Are you happy with Ventrilo?
Assassin: Yes, I think Ventrilos are pretty cool you know because actually me and my friend Nick here who you would see as T1 chat room, I use expire of and it’s always crashed my routers so this seems to go a little easier less bandwidth I guess and it works very well.
Jason: Yeah, actually you don’t even need a big server. You can have relatively low server and it uses very, very little CPU usage. Depending on your codec, the harder the codec the more usages can you get so it can roughly be up to 100 kilobytes per second.
So, we have our own server now and we’re actually quite satisfied with what we’re getting here. Low pings less delays. A lot of gamers would like this especially with first person shooters with unreal tournament that or do sex or other first person shooters. What will happen is people would want to talk to each other on their teams and everything. You can even do targets and stuff and set up people on your team as groups. You can run the system trace so when you’re playing you can talk and just press the button and it will target that group or everybody. You can have a push to talk or you push your button that you program your keyboard so that it will allow to talk and say whatever or you can have a voice activated which we usually do here. Well, I know I do so whenever you speak, you don’t have to press and hold the button. So, it’s relatively cool stuff. You can go to ventrilo.com and there’s—it’s so easy to set up like they give you step by step instructions and anything. And actually and if you have in trouble and you want to set one up you can always come buy McInTEC.net.
Give us an email, info at McInTEC.net or questions at McInTEC.net. And then tell us what you think. If you want us to help you setup or if you want to come in to our Ventrilo servers our server it is Vent.McInTEC.net and the port number is 31726. You can come in and talk with us you know where else on Skype, look for McInTEC and call us anytime.
So again, that’s just about wraps up my show. Shop by website McInTEC.net to come buy live McInTEC.net and see us screaming and hang out with us. We also have a chatroom, you enter username and you click login and you could chat. Thanks for watching everybody and we’ll chat with you later and thanks for being on the show again Assassin.
Assassin: No problem.
Jason: All right, we’ll chat with you later.
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