Vent or TS?

Hi, thinking of renting a server, which should i get? Vent or TS? and whats some good prices out there? any help will be GREAT!

I prefer TS....vent just pisses me off. It's hard to set up as a user, I can't imagine the nightmare of being the admin.

vent has better sound quality...and i won't give an opnion on who i think has best prices because I would consider that as spam and advertising. Which is reportable sorry. When I got mine I just googled high quality vent servers. Looked through different sites and found one where I thought i was bieng treated as a person not a paycheck. I didn't go with the cheapest one I could find but I got great quality for what I was paying.

I suggest you look around and make sure you aren't getting cheated out of money. Look for quality even if you have to pay a buck or 2 extra a month.

Anyway yea thats my suggestions. By the way I don't have the server anymore thats why I was using past tense. Yea good luck finding a server you like.

i find vent is more commonly used among guilds but ts's auto talk feature is much better imo.

I don't like auto talk....you here those people who have mic to close to there mouth breathing and crap. Or when they are yelling at mom/wife/gf/bf/father whoever it gets pretty annoying.

I like Vent, as it is easy to admin the users and set up the server.

TS is east to use and admin too, but we had really poor quality sound.

PvP = Vent (its cleaner, crisper and faster)
Pve = TS (its more relaxed and user friendly)

I've been on both and I found the quality to be the same. Songbringer, you do know you can adjust the quality on the channels, don't you?

Of course, there was already a thread about TS vs Vent recently:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...light=ventrilo

Voice activation..? That's on both Ventrilo and TeamSpeak..

A year or 2 ago I used to always use TeamSpeak, never tried Ventrilo but the past year or so now I've been using Ventrilo with my CS:S Clan and it's so much more clearer, crisp, and has a better networking side to it I find as voice transmits noticably faster.

To the ones who don't find it user-friendly or find it hard to administrate, I too thought what the hell to do but if you play with it for an hour or 2 you get used to it all and it's so easy to use.

I have been on both to. Only owned a vent server though. I have found vent to be better sound rate and they are withing like 1-2 dollars a month of each other. Even changing the quality sound in each channel. Other things come into affect when you try to do it. It can only get so good for the quality server you have.

THX! i appreciate it, im going to shop online now!

I use them both but i host my own teamspeak for friends (on my windows server box), it's cheaper than renting one and it is very easy to maintain plus it doesn't use much bandwidth or resources at all...

The quality is identical. I have used both since I started my FPS gaming clan in 1999, and used RogerWilco before that. TS is superior as far as bandwidth is concerned. Ventrilo can be set to higher sound rates, but anything over 18k~20k is just stupid. I mean you're getting a mono signal from the microphone, unless you use two microphones or something, so quality above that 20k barrier is just an extra waste of bandwidth.

We normally use TS with the Speex19.5k codec. Nobody sounds robotic, very little bandwidth is used (we have some guys on 768k DSL, not much to spare), and it works great even with twenty or more of us on during a raid in WoW. Also, the auto-speak feature in TS is awesome, and saves a key for use in-game.

Note that I have hosted both types of servers on the SAME Linux machine on the SAME 12Mbps connection, so my observations when we were choosing a format were not biased due to hardware or bandwidth. TS is the superior program, although I notice a LOT of younger people flocking to Ventrilo like it's crack or something. I believe it's one of those things where somebody said it ruled, and the kids came running.

Bottom-line, they both sound the same at 20k or above, but TS uses less bandwidth and has a wonderful automatic feature.

Personally prefer Vent. Don't mind using either though.

I suggest Vent