CerealKillaz.org Bustaz Beware

Yo, everyone, we here at CerealKillaz.Org are considering changing our voice chat offering from Ventrilo to Mumble.

What is Mumble, you ask? Well, let me get right to telling you. Mumble is a more fully-featured voice chat program. It is, in functionality, very comparable to Ventrilo or to Teamspeak, but it is open source.

What does open-source mean? Open source means that the program is developed by people all around the world, and offered to everyone for free. This is unlike Ventrilo and Teamspeak, which allow their clients to be downloaded freely, but proceed to charge exorbitant licensing fees to those hosting the servers. So, in the long run, it means that Mumble is cheaper. However, it is cheaper without a loss of quality.

It uses the same speex codecs that are already on our vent server, and it uses less system resources to run than ventrilo. it alos has settings to make it more bearable on slow connections or older computers. Did i mention you can skin it?

What do I have to do to get on the CK Mumble server?

It's pretty easy. You just need to click the link : http://mumble.sourceforge.net

Once you do that, you just download the latest STABLE version for your operating system. Then, you install it. Then, you run the audio wizard, BEING SURE TO SELECT A PUSH TO TALK KEY DURING THE WIZARD. Then, you create a new server entry in the server editor, with the following information:

Servername = CerealKillaz.Org Mumble Server

Address = mumble.cerealkillaz.org

Port = 10025

Username will be your in game name, please.

Once you get all connected up, be sure to use your "Self" menu to register with the server.

Anyway, hope to see you guys over there. There is a forums thread (click the link) where this item will be open for discussion.

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