Best third-party voice communication for PC multiplayer gaming?

[Goodsport]

Roger Wilco? Teamspeak? Skype? Ventrilo? Something else?

And why?


-G

 

[Lazybones]

I've used Ventrilo to coordinate multiple DMs while playing Neverwinter Nights. It was easy to set up and use, although it took me a short while (about 10 minutes) to figure out how to properly bind a key to activate talk mode. It had almost no impact on my server bandwidth.

 

[Goodsport]

Thanks Lazybones!


-G

 

[Aristotle]

I've used several of them, but (for me) Ventrilo is the best. A *lot* of people seem to use Teamspeak, so I guess its the default 'top dog'. But (after much fiddling with the controls) ventrilo tends to give me unbelievably clear audio and it doesn't seem to affect my ping/framerates while I'm in game much at all.

I've actually put up a ventrilo server on the webhosting account I use to run my gaming group's website. It was pretty easy to set up.