Ventrilo - A Great Type Of Voice Over Internet Protocol

2009-08-12 Word Count: 522 Category: VOIP

Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP has revolutionized communications throughout the world. Suddenly, communicating with a friend or relative on another continent is not only easy, but very inexpensive. Ventrilo has taken the concept of VoIP and turned it into a great way for multiple people to communicate in real time at next to no cost.

Ventrilo allows people or businesses to set up voice chat over the internet with multiple others of their choosing. For businesses, the use is pretty straightforward: conference calling is now far less expensive and far easier than it was on a regular telephone network. For private use, Ventrilo now allows groups of any kind to set up real time voice chat for whatever reason: to discuss politics, to simply chat among friends, or to coordinate group activities.

One very popular use for Ventrilo, however is in online gaming. Massively multiplayer online role playing games, or MMORPGs, like Lord of the Rings Online, have player communities that have adopted Ventrilo in large numbers. Many of these online role playing games are played in teams. Imagine being able to talk and listen to your entire team in real time as you are playing the game online. This has not only promoted team cooperation, but has made the games themselves much more exciting. Most gamers who use Ventrilo wear microphone headsets so that their hands are free to operate the game controls. Another characteristic of Ventrilo that gamers love is that the client (or software that's on a user's computer to run Ventrilo) makes minimal use of CPU resources, so that it does not bog down the action on the screen.

Setting up a Ventrilo group is an easy and inexpensive process. Someone who wants to set up a Ventrilo group decides how large he or she wants the group to be, then looks at the offerings from some of the many licensed Ventrilo hosts in their country and chooses a package based on the size of their group. Most packages are inexpensive. Typically, someone can set up a Ventrilo group with 10 slots for less than $5.00 per month. The price increases with the number of slots. Someone could set up a 400-person Ventrilo group for around $120.00 per month. For a business that does a lot of conference calling, or that is looking to cut down on travel expenses, Ventrilo networks can be a very appealing option.

When you set up a Ventrilo network, you have the option of making it open or private. Sometimes family members will form a Ventrilo group, particularly when a family member is in need and the rest of the family is widely scattered. Friends that know each other through forums and blogs can get together and chat. And another use for Ventrilo is with radio call-in shows.

Communication with people all over the world has probably changed more in the last decade than in the entire history leading up to it. No longer are friendships dictated by geography, but people with common interest can find each other easily and keep in touch very economically.

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