Vent Hosts

[Boyiee]

Looking for a new vent host, probably 10-25slots.

Not really concerned which has the best price, although cheaper is good, I like voice quality.

I think our old vent server was at least 33k khz, obviously 44k would be nice. Most of the sites that host just say "we have the best quality" but don't say what that is or codecs. I suppose mac support would be important but meh.

Thanks for the recommendations. So far it looks like Typefrag or darkstarllc.

[Ksandra]

My vent server uses hurricane host. I'll check when I get home what the actual quality is but I can say we've had it for 6+ years. Quality is good. Never crashes. Also macs can use it. Hope that helps.

[Pikarya]

typefrag
nationvoice
light-speed
bfgservers
darkstarllc
RIP NRGservers.

[Boyiee]

Yes, google gave me almost that same list. Do you have anything to add on those hosts other than that?

[Franzer]

i use http://www.nfoservers.com/ personally. Its easy to set up, and they are always quick if things happen to go down etc. I also appreciate the web control panel. If you have an ls site or something, i'm assuming you're using it for a game, they have a nice donate page you can link to so everyone can donate to the server and help pay for it.

[Vandole]

bg uses bfgservers iirc, $40 a month for a 50 slot and the quality is great.

[Sonomaa]

yeah, bfgservers has been really nice, you can adjust quality any way you want including using speex on other channels if you need for macfags

I could save a little bit of money going somewhere else, but Id rather stay loyal to the guy who has hooked me up constantly in the past

[Boyiee]

bfgservers is definitely the higher priced option, but if the quality is that good then I might have to bite. Typefrag seems to have pretty good quality options as well for a little bit less money.

Should just get a dedicated cod/bf server, they come with vents usually lol.

[nitsuj]

As an alternative, guildwork.com is going to be adding mumble servers to their premium guilds. Could end up being cheaper, as well, and I've heard good things about mumble, although I have tried it yet. Vent, on the other hand, has given me nothing but problems.

edit: tentative info link: http://www.guildwork.com/forum/t/4cd...m-coming-soon/

[Mafai]

Its pretty easy to host a server yourself if your connection is decent.

I host a teamspeak server with my router maintaining my IP (if for some odd reason it changes) using dyndns.org. Teamspeak server is free and has no connection limitation if you aren't using it to generate income.

[nitsuj]

Its pretty easy to host a server yourself if your connection is decent.

I host a teamspeak server with my router maintaining my IP (if for some odd reason it changes) using dyndns.org. Teamspeak server is free and has no connection limitation if you aren't using it to generate income.

I wouldn't try to host your own ventrilo. We had a disaster of it being 8 person limit, and they refused to sell us a license. They only sell licenses to bigger resellers, or something.

[Mafai]

I wouldn't try to host your own ventrilo. We had a disaster of it being 8 person limit, and they refused to sell us a license. They only sell licenses to bigger resellers, or something.

Agreed. I was talking more about teamspeak since people offered up the option of mumble as well.

[Stanislav]

Guildwork is now offering a free 25man Mumble server.

http://www.guildwork.com/blog/2010/1...e-end-of-2010/

[sruon]

All hail Mumble.

srsly fuck ventrilo

[Grey Jorildyn]

If you're looking for quality, go with teamspeak 3. Vent sucks bad and the people who coded it should feel bad.

[Soupbowl]

mumble > all

[Eanae]

Teamspeak is pure shit. Worst voice program I've ever used. Just use mumble or vent.

[Grey Jorildyn]

Then something tells me you've never experienced good TS service. The capability of ts is amazing. It makes vent look like a kid's meal. Never used mumble and haven't heard any bad things about it. If permissions are as good as they are with ts, good game.