Online games have become extremely popular over the last few years. The world is experiencing obvious effects on the online gaming industry, as more and more gamers focus their attention from playing traditional games to online games. Online games were once a fantasy phrase, but as the introduction of thousands of online games on the Internet, people are noticed that fiction has come true.

Voice communication in online games has been quite around for some time, but recently gained more popularity as the emergence of online games. More people on these days now have broadband internet connection instead of dial-up connection. This will provide an extra bandwidth for user to use voice communication. As voice communication gained its popularity, many communication software has been developed; one of these software is Ventrilo.

What is Voice over Internet Protocol?
The Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is one of the types of communication through internet. VoIP is a structure of advanced computer technology that gives many impacts to the communication systems.

What is Ventrilo?
Ventrilo is advanced group communication software developed based on VoIP. Ventrilo able to provide surround sound positioning and special sound effects on a server, channel or user, which fully customize by each user using its configuration program.

Ventrilo is well known for its quality sound and low CPU resource usage so it will not interfere with current computer usage or during online game competitions. The software is also easy to install and configure, as its only takes a few steps.

Ventrilo software can be divided into two sections, which is server program and client program. Ventrilo server is the main program, which all the client software must connect to in order to communicate with other people. On the other hand, the client program is the software that user need to download and install in order to use Ventrilo services.

How to Install Ventrilo?
Ventrilo client software is currently available in two versions 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 (which is platform dependent). The client program is easy to install and configure. Once you have downloaded the client software (only 2.6MB), you can install it right away. Ventrilo setup takes only 10-30 seconds to complete, depending on your computer speed.

Before you start using Ventrilo, you need to find Ventrilo servers that are suitable for you. I strongly recommend DallasXtreme for Ventrilo server hosting. They provide a number of packages with affordable price. The package varies within 10 to 400 users, which cost from $2.48/month to $119.95/month.

After you installed the client software, all you need to do is run the software (Start > All Programs > Ventrilo > Ventrilo). After that, you just need to specify your username, Ventrilo server IP address or Hostname, and then click ‘Connect”. You can also specify additional settings by go to the configuration interface (‘Setup’ button).

Conclusion
Most people choose to use Ventrilo as it able to provide communication across nations for low cost and superior sound quality. Online gamers can talk and discuss easily with their own team members, which keeps them one-step ahead of their rival team. Besides that, most tactical or strategy online games can be enhance through teamwork via their headphone rather than traditional chatting.

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