The first thing I said to Billy when we decided to switch: "Civil War"
Here's what happened,
We decided we'd run a shit ton of TeamSpeak servers and provide them entirely free off the Epidemic website. In the process of setting them up, we decided to test out the server and try to set up the banners on it, ect when we noticed... TeamSpeak isn't a hunk of shit anymore.
After applying for a non profit license with TeamSpeak, we recieved it within the hour and now have the ability to host over 500 slots, meaning, unlike Ventrilo - TeamSpeak is costing us $0.00 per month.
Now, I wasn't about to switch just based on money so we began dicking around with TeamSpeak further when we stumbled upon some more features that sold us..
The avatar/profile system, the icon system, the banner system, ability to use bbcode in all of these, the chat, ect...
We then focused on the primary reason we use Ventrilo and if it were truly better in TeamSpeak.. The Codec..
Ventrilo has a max transfer rate of Speex 32 kHz when it comes to codec.
TeamSpeak however provied CELT Mono 48 kHz, a faster and higher quality codec.
Once upon a time, TeamSpeak was a big purple hunk of shit. Now, the tables have turned.
The only negative thing we have encountered is the fact that your account is not authenticated through a login but it saves to your computer itself.
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Epidemic hasn't used TeamSpeak since 2004, the year TeamSpeak was better than Ventrilo, once again the tables have turned. TeamSpeak has a solid team working behind it.