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Re: Voice Chat Server (ONLINE)
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06/05/06 09:00
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In the meantime I thought it was worth raising the question to the general community about what day & time of the week a regular session would suit most people.
My guess is that the weekend is the best time for most people, possibly on sundays?
Please offer your thoughts on this.
While weekend is the best I also log into TS during the week either around 15:00 (GMT+0) or in the evening around 18:00 (GMT+0).
On the weekend I also take a glance at it in the morning.
around 10:00 (GMT+0) or in the afternoon, evening. (see above)
However I shortly noticed the amount of data send from the server to my computer letting our bill rise pretty high (volume limited account, free to 2GB or something)
So I'll just step in a few times while being at the computer to take a look if somebody is on.
However if we could establish "fixed" times it would be way better 
So anyone else?
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Re: Voice Chat Server (ONLINE)
[Re: Xarthor]
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06/05/06 10:48
06/05/06 10:48
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However I shortly noticed the amount of data send from the server to my computer letting our bill rise pretty high (volume limited account, free to 2GB or something)
Yes using the TS server is like listening to MP3's when ever their is voice transfer, so if you are charged by usage and your limit is very low, you do need to consider this. However according to the server log there has not been a huge amount of audio traffic, and I suspect not enough to cause a significant spike in your usage.
Just to avoid any major concerns about this, the codec running in most of our channels is 16.4kbits per second, this gives good enough quality while keeping the bandwidth low.
I have noticed people hanging around in the AFK channel which I have now set to the highest compression giving 3.4Kbit as that is not a chat channel, so voice quality is not important.
This will reduce bandwidth further. Of course its also worth pointing out that TeamSpeak is a game chat program, and is designed to use as little bandwidth as needed, so it really shouldn't be creating spiked usage, and certainly not several GB, so you might want to look into that more Thunder. Visit http://www.goteamspeak.com for more information.
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So anyone else?
As you know I will be in TS most days, usually around 12:00GMT, although this last couple of weeks I have been away from my home office and down at the studios, so have not had time to be on much. Im back now, so should be back to usual 
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Re: Voice Chat Server (ONLINE)
[Re: indiGLOW]
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06/05/06 13:27
06/05/06 13:27
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After speaking with Thunder via PM it appears he was looking at the wrong stats. However its worth exploring the bandwidth: An average person exchanging about 40bytes per second in a chat channel, about 5Mb an hour.(approx 2.5Mb of your upload bandwidth) If you clocked up 8 hours a day for a month you would use 0.5Gb of your bandwidth. I doubt your connected that much....are you?  Hope that clears things up
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Re: Voice Chat Server (ONLINE)
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06/05/06 13:58
06/05/06 13:58
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Well in the holidays I sometimes spend the "entire" day on TS However the issue is cleared. Thanks Luke
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Re: Voice Chat Server (OFFLINE)
[Re: Xarthor]
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09/25/06 12:56
09/25/06 12:56
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indiglow.co.uk has now closed this Voice Chat Server. We would like to thank those of the A6 community who dropped into our TS server and hope that those of you who visited it since its launch in March 2006 found it useful and beneficial with communication for your projects. We will be re-launching a new Teamspeak server later this year but at present we are not sure if this will be made available to the A6 community as we are now engaged in some commercial projects outside of this group and our resources and support will be tied up with other things. For more information visit our website.
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