Teamspeak Again?

[Monoman]

It has been mentioned in a couple of topics of using Skype for meeting up and I'm wondering if it would be worth starting the MGM Teamspeak server back up. Is there interest in this now?

[Mgalekgolo]

We were talking about this yesterday. I'm not sure, i've never used it.

[Excend]

Teamspeak is pretty good. I personally prefer ventrilo, but it'd probably be harder to set that up than to restart the teamspeak server. Both are good because rather than always hearing everyone, people push a button to talk. Also allows a lot more people at once.

[nil]

Consider mumble, http://mumble.sourceforge.net/

I would not touch teamspeak or ventrilo if my life depended on it, especially on OS X, where the programs are atrocious and lacking in updates. They are what I define as evil.

With only a couple of people, iChat or Skype are not bad choices.

[Vegerot]

I think Mga and I either did FaceTime or iChat that one time.
And don't use Skype, it makes your computer run so much more slow than just using iChat.

[kiddten]

If you have a noticable difference when running skype as opposed to not, your computer sucks.

[Vegerot]

It's actually not noticeable, but I looked at apps like Activity monitor to see how fast my computer went and how much bandwidth it uses when I use either Skype or iChat, and iChat uses less. Both idle and video/audio chatting.

[Fonzeh]

yesyesyesyesyes yes


AHEM

Yes please sir.

[Monoman]

Teamspeak is pretty good. I personally prefer ventrilo, but it'd probably be harder to set that up than to restart the teamspeak server. Both are good because rather than always hearing everyone, people push a button to talk. Also allows a lot more people at once.

I've used both but the main reason for Teamspeak over Ventrilo here is Teamspeak allows more users for free than Ventrilo.

Consider mumble, http://mumble.sourceforge.net/

I would not touch teamspeak or ventrilo if my life depended on it, especially on OS X, where the programs are atrocious and lacking in updates. They are what I define as evil.

With only a couple of people, iChat or Skype are not bad choices.

I've looked at mumble but have never used it. Would everyone prefer mumble for this?

[draconic74]

I used Teamspeak a bit back in the ClanHalo days.
I've used Mumble and Ventrilo for about 10 minutes each.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... P_software

Quick look shows that Mumble may be preferable.

Other stuff:
http://gcguild.net/movie/ventrilo-vs-te ... -vs-mumble

[Vegerot]

If we would get something we had to pay for, we might as well just use the chat feature on GameRanger.

[draconic74]

I thought GR was free.

[Amy]

To use your mic to speak you need to have silver or gold.

[draconic74]

Oh, well screw that. GR was never all that great to begin with.

[Excend]

If we would get something we had to pay for, we might as well just use the chat feature on GameRanger.

No. Gameranger sucks. I don't know anything about mumble, but I'm open to it.