voice-2-voice communication via broadband (1 Viewer)

[Grey Council]

Hey

This is my first post in the IT forums.

anyway, I was wondering if there is a program available (commercial or otherwise, but a good program.) that:
a) can run in the background
b) will facilitate voice to voice communication, SMOOTHLY.

Obviously using a microphone.

I'm after a good program, one that would enable communication approaching or exceeding telephone communication. Communication would be inter-NSW (inter sydney, actually) so pings will be low, esp as 512k broadband will be used.

So any? A program a bit more enhanced than MSN Messenger,

Hehe, any help appreciated.

 

[anti]

Hmmm. I have heard of something which does this but I can't for the life of me think what the name was. Just letting you know that it does exist though.

If I remember it I'll post again.

 

[sunny]

You can try roger wilco, and teamspeak. These two are designed for online gaming so they take up little bandwidth and CPU power.

 

[Majesty]

Doesn't netmeeting do the job also?
Doesn't really run in the background though i suppose.

 

[Tarek]

.... with netmeeting i think only 2 people at a time can talk using microphones if this is not the case tell me how! becuase it aint working 4 me and my friends. it always stuffs up like we cant hear the 3rd guy thats come in...

 

[Grey Council]

2 people is all I need. Is Roger Wilco a good program? I've heard alot about it, from my time in Cyber Games. hehe, its free as well, from what I can remember.

But does it do the job properly? Like, no cutting off for no reason etc. hehe, i only played CS, so I could communicate fine, never needed to use Roger Wilco.

Thanks for the help. lol, netmeeting is what i'm trying to avoid. There are problems with netmeeting, supposedly, thats why I want to have a program that runs in the background.

 

[sunny]

I've used roger wilco on several occasions and its quite good. I've never used teamspeak myself, but seem it used on many occasions.

 

[del]

http://www.skype.com/

haven't tried it though

 

[Grey Council]

mad. All seem good.

will have to try all of them though, to see which one works the best/ is the most user friendly. hehe, other people will be using it too, heh?

Thanks all. I'll be sure to let you guys know the results.

 

[Majesty]

Just search http://www.download.com
I'm sure you'll find what you want.

 

[Grizzly]

Originally posted by del
http://www.skype.com/

haven't tried it though

Yes - ive got and used skype once before and its great

Audio over MSN is pathetic and too congested by so many other users doing the same thing ; or using webcam at the same time.

 

[:: ck ::]

teamspeak is good ive used it for cs n stuff

it can be activated by voice or u can do it via pushin buttons

 

[Grizzly]

nar - whilst playing online games ...

Ventrilo is better

 

[McLake]

*McLake feels he needs to plug Apple again*

iChat could do this for you, and its FREE with MaxOSX ...

 

[ZeGoat]

Originally posted by Grizzly
Yes - ive got and used skype once before and its great

Audio over MSN is pathetic and too congested by so many other users doing the same thing ; or using webcam at the same time.

yea ive used it as well and its really good...
EDIT: referring to skype not msn

 

[m00f_2004]

Ventrillo is the best program if your after clarity and low pings.

Teamspeak is also good, using GameArena servers (if your on Telstra Broadband) will not use any bandwidth