[KingMario]

Do you guys have a vent server?

[ibfreeekout]

KingMario, on 21 March 2012 - 10:22 PM, said:

Do you guys have a vent server?

We have a Mumble server that is open to the public. If you grab that and then sort by number of users in the server list, you should be able to find it fairly quickly.

[Daman]

Mumble is the superior low-latency client for professional gaming. It's free and open source, too.

Our info is: lanknights.eecs.ucf.edu port 27000

[MajorLag]

It should be pretty straight forward, but if your having trouble, ask one of us or go here

http://www.lanknights.net/lan/mumble/

The steps are the same even though you aren't connecting at the LAN.

[KingMario]

I've never heard of it but alright. Will join in a bit.

[Oen386]

Yeah, just FYI. A while back LANKnights looked into a Vent server. They do not offer any discounts, and while a small 20-30 person server was an acceptable price, it was decided a larger server was needed when LANs can hit 80 people or more. Also to pay for that year around just makes it even costlier. :/

As stated Mumble is free and open source. They strive to have the lowest latency. I often times prefer it over any of the in game options, as when both are on you can clearly tell some games have a second or more of delay.

Since Mumble is entirely free we are allowed to host a server at no cost other than the hardware and bandwidth. So by hosting it on campus, we are able to remove the cost of hardware and bandwidth.

I would highly suggest spending a little time in the settings menu, and checking out the advanced options. I believe by default it is off now, but there is an overlay you can enable. I know a few years ago when we first tried it, some users raged quit when they tried it the first time and the names of users in the same channel appeared on their screen.

[Daman]

Also, mumble has infinitely higher quality than ventrilo. Our server's quality settings are restricted to preserve bandwidth(we have 1337 slots), but otherwise on small community mumbles it'll sound miles better than vent/ts/whatever.

[Oen386]

Here is our bandwidth over the last year. The bars going down, are our bandwidth going out. I think we had a few larger groups on Mumble last December, and they chose to get a private server so I believe that was the drop in traffic. Unless that is from people playing Minecraft less.

[Rickenwing]

Oen386, on 22 March 2012 - 10:07 AM, said:

Here is our bandwidth over the last year. The bars going down, are our bandwidth going out. I think we had a few larger groups on Mumble last December, and they chose to get a private server so I believe that was the drop in traffic. Unless that is from people playing Minecraft less.

Dat graph.

[Oen386]

Rickenwing, on 22 March 2012 - 10:28 AM, said:

Dat graph.

It doesn't show it, but we typically hit around 3 Megabits of traffic a night, just outgoing. What you see are points on a graph that represent a 12 hour average. :/