Switch to Vent?

Has anybody ever noticed how unclear teamspeak is?
There are times when I can hardly understand what people are saying.

They usually are:
- When somebody talks loudly
- Two people try to talk at once
- If somebody has a shitty microphone.

If any of you have ever tried ventrillo, you'll know its much much clearer than teamspeak. I'd put up with teamspeak, but there are times when I can't understand what people are saying in raids + wars. Now this is bad. No wonder we're so disorganised. If I can't understand half of the piles, I'm guessing a few other people can't as well.

During a war, previously when I've been using vent, I've had no trouble in finding piles. But with teamspeak, it honestly takes my brain a good 2 seconds to process what the pile was, simply because half the time, I can't understand it properly.

Robbie, I know you link teamspeak to the forums with the login names + whatnot, and that's truly a great job. Not sure if you can do the same with a vent server, but I don't know your limitations.

Anyway, discuss.

Completely agree, Vent uses less resources aswell...

Anyone tried teamspeak 3?

Definately agree, i use both Vent and TS and vent is easily better quality.
If that is possible for us to get a vent server then umm yah, do et

I'd ditch forum stuff for more organization at raids. Sorry Robbie <333

Vent.. But like, its more expensive?

The 100 slot Vent server I had with RR was £12 a month.

Two issues. First off, I'm not convinced that its Teamspeak causing this issue. Listen. That is a recording of myself, over TS, with our current settings. You can't tell me that that isn't perfectly understandable.

However I do admit that almost everyone I talk to in TS is much more garbled, and this can be a problem. In fact, up until today, I sounded about as bad. Today, I messed around with some settings to get TS to work in Linux, and I managed to make my mic sound 10X better.
What did I do? I adjusted some mixer settings. The mixer is the bit of software which takes in audio from your mic, adjust the volume, then gives it to TS. Whats happening is that your mic volume is so "loud" that its hitting the upper volume limit, and getting majority distorted. It should be an easy fix - simply adjusting your sound levels a bit, but I haven't had enough time to figure out a proper set of instructions.

If we can get this to work, great. If not, then perhaps we can swich. But if we do, its going to be a lot of work, and going to take a while. And thats assuming we can do it - I heard something about having to pay if you want more than 8 slots, but the only thing I can find on the website is having to pay for a minimum of 1000 slots. If those are both true... well, we can't own a 1000 slot server, not at $0.14 a slot.

I'm happy with TS. Maybe Vent might have better sound quality but we've stuck with TS this long, I don't think it's worth the hassle to change the forums around and manage finances and get everyone to switch over just for that.

Anyone tried Skype? Free and very good program

free. i like the sound of that.

vent is awesome.....

http://www.ventrilo.com/hosting.php?byctry=usa

they all have different hosts/prices.....personally I have always enjoyed Nationvoice and typefrag, but there are tons of other good hosts.

price so far is $20-30 a month for a 100 slot vent

I love Vent, it is as user friendly as TS and the quality is a lot better.

Hey Robbie, I'm always up to give you a hand on TS, I'm on pretty much all the time. Just ask me one of those times.

I would prefer staying ts myself. Hopefully Robbie gets a guide for us to use what we have better. I have an expensive mic and I know sometimes it gives me a bit of trouble too.

Vent is way better than Teamspeak, and this comes from years of experience using both..

And lets be realistic, WG does NOT need 100 slots. 50 at best, until we expand a little more.

Bit late, but im going to support this. I've been using vent for wow lately, and the difference was REALLY noticable on ts. Its just bad when you have multiple people calling on ts. Vents quality is MUCH better, and trust me the communication will be MUCH better too when multiple people are leading.

/bump