Ventrilo VS TeamSpeak VS Mumble
by amp on Feb.05, 2010, under PC, Reviews & Previews, Web Resources
Ah, a long standing battle of which is better…although the main battle is between Ventrilo and TeamSpeak, Mumble is a good alternative to either of these.
With the recent release of Teamspeak 3, Ventrilo is having more and more competition to go up against.
There really are no online posts with hard-proof and real data about the bandwidth, cpu usage, memory usage, etc is for each one of these programs it is all linked more to personal preference.
If you have your own server boxes like we do you can run the free ventrilo server which is limited to 8 connections while Teamspeak has a limit I cannot remember what it was. As far as I can remember, Mumble has no limit.
While some may worry about bandwidth used by these programs there is no real difference between them. It all depends on what voice codec is used coupled with its bit rate and whether stereo or mono.
Like I said, it boils down to personal preference. Ventrilo is certainly easier to install and maintain and use rather than Teamspeak but I consider ventrilo to be like apple. Closed off to innovation and source.
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May 18th, 2010 on 10:52 pm
FWIW TeamSpeak 2 was limited to no more than 1,000 users for a non-profit/clan license… any more than that and you had to pay for it. I’ve no idea what the license for TS3 is.
Mumble’s only limited by the upstream bandwidth of your provider, an old Pentium4 or an Atom will run Murmur and happily saturate a 100mbps port if you have enough chatty people online.
May 18th, 2010 on 11:06 pm
Been there done that. The only problem is mumble isn’t as mainstream (unfortunately)… :sadface:
August 6th, 2010 on 12:42 pm
I use vent for a chat server for a neverwinter nights persistent world I run. From a non bandwidth perspective, vent seems to do better in wireless situations. This comes from first hand experience and what’s been relayed by my users.
If bandwidth is a concern look for Roger Wilco, it’s less bandwidth intense but it’s somewhat inferior in quality. You will find yourself repeating a lot, and be prepared for a more ‘tin man’ like sound.
August 7th, 2010 on 8:15 am
Teamspeak 3 in my opion has pulled ahead of vent. You are only allowed to host yourself 8 slots with vent. Teamspeak 3 on the other hand, you may have a 512 slot non-profit for free. The voice quality of ts3 and automatic voice gain control of all clients makes for a very nice talking environment. Why vent does not give out non-profit idk.
October 15th, 2010 on 1:12 pm
just to necro this for anyone else coming along and to add to rp3′s comment along with the NP license you can host up to 10 separate servers