Ventrilo and Skype are both widely used PC-based VOIP applications. While both are excellent and ultimately similar utilities, they are almost the complete opposite when it comes to their underlying network architectures. Ventrilo uses the Client-Server architecture whereas Skype uses Peer-to-Peer (often abbreviated as p2p). Because of this distinction, there are several situations in which choosing one over the other may be of greater benefit. In this article we will be discussing the use of both programs in the context of business conferences, social groups and gaming clans or guilds.
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Ventrilo and Skype: Peer-to-Peer versus Client-Server in VOIP
September 1st, 2009Ventrilo @ QuakeCon 2009: Ford Shelby GT500 Giveaway
July 22nd, 2009Ventrilo will be one of the main sponsors at QuakeCon 2009 — one lucky winner at QuakeCon ‘09 will be the owner of a brand new Ford Shelby GT500, provided by Flagship Industries. Ventrilo has provided voice communication servers at QuakeCon since 2005. This will be the second year of Ventrilo’s car giveaways at QuakeCon — at last year’s convention a 2008 Chevy Corvette was given away to one lucky gamer.
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Ventrilo MOTD: Adding Colors, Fonts, Formatting and other styles
June 23rd, 2009A rather obscure feature of Ventrilo is the ability to add custom styling such as colors and fonts to the server MOTD. It’s not a built-in functionality of Ventrilo so we’ll have to use a couple of other programs to make use of styled ventrilo MOTDs: mainly notepad and Wordpad, which should come standard with all modern Windows operating systems. It’s actually a pretty easy process – just copying and pasting for the most part.
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Download Ventrilo 3.0.5
April 29th, 2009Ventrilo 3.0.5 for Windows has been released. Version 3.0.5 introduces support for the Logitech G35 headset and the G19 Color Gamepanel LCD. It also adds new options for those with the Logitech G13 and G15 gaming keyboard. In non-hardware related changes, the in-game overlay has been streamlined with several more in-game options and optimizations. As always, this version also includes several bug fixes to the user interface. Read the rest of this entry »
2 New Locations
April 8th, 2009We’re proud to announce two more additions to our world wide network: San Jose, California and Tokyo, Japan. Our new San Jose POP will furthermore strengthen our west coast network which already consists of Seattle, Washington and Los Angeles, California. Our Tokyo, Japan POP will mark our entrance into the Asian gaming VOIP market. Our servers in Japan should provide lower latencies for users in Asia and the Pacific Islands.
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