Thursday, October 27, 2005

Ventrilo is a surround sound VOIP Application for your internet communication and LAN office and gaming talk

Today I am introducing Ventrilo, a VOIP application that works on a LAN and also through the internet. Ventrilo 2.3.0 is the next evolutionary step of Voice over IP (VoIP) group communications software. Ventrilo is also the industry standard by which all others measure them selves as they attempt to imitate it's features.

Setup and connection is fairly simple, simply download an exe (executable) file for the server and then another for the client on each machine that needs to connect. Supported platforms are Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris SPARC and x86, NetBSD and MacOSX. The server can run on the same machine as a client.

We downloaded the small (500mb) files quickly and installed equally quickly and were testing within a few minutes. The options are detailed, but can be ignored as you can go straight in and start using it.

This will be given a full workout on the weekend at my next LAN.

Quakecon use Ventrilo as their VOIP tool of choice for their 3200+PC gaming LAN.


Posted by: Jethro | 1:08 AM |