Category: Safe Haven
Hi all,
Well I had a schedule to meet with a friend in australia on an ivocalize server. She and I meet every Saturday night, which is sunday afternoon in australia. Well either the server was bad, or it was a sight thing, but the breakup on my end was worse than it's ever been. she and i usually have a nice 3 hour talk, but not tonight. I have always had some sort of minor annoyance with ivocalize. I'd be talking, and suddenly, I wouldn't hear anyone and they wouldn't hear me, but when I went out of the room and came back, things would be fine again, but tonight, I came in and out several times and nothing helped. I have little patience with things like that, so she and I just had to call it quits. I had to go on for the people, and go in the loop back room to test my audio, which turned out to be ok in there. Well she and I will try our get together again in 2 weeks and hope the problem fixed its self. I think if a server isn't checked on and some maintenance done, things start going down hill and the server starts experiencing problems. Oh well, just thought I'd post that while I could think of something. If I don't talk to anyone before christmas, take care and have a merry christmas.
wonderwoman
Or, it could just be Internet congestion, which makes more sense, since you usually don't have the problems. There may just be a bottleneck somewhere.
in these situations, i prefer to have at least two methods of voice communication. I for example, use msn messeger, also ventrillo, and I have access to a ivocalise server. one of which aught to be working at any given time.
Another 1! I'd give up if I was you pal.
I prefer MSN Messenger or other chat programs. I enjoy using Ventrilo but not hosting chats on my server as bandwidth on dial up sucks.
I too think it's just net congestion and will probably be fixed the next time you chat.
Troy
Well, it's not so bad if I know the problem isn't on my end. I have msn messenger, and sometime the voice chat works, sometimes it doesn't. The only thing is, if I keep trying after the secondor third time, doing the same thing and it doesn't work, doesn't work, I'm ready to quit after the third time, but the person on the other end, particularly if it's a man, wants to keep tinkering and tinkering, and he automatically assumes the problem is on my end, whereas I'm like, it could be anything, could be server problems, maybe version incompatibility, but I don't automatically go, well you've bound to have a problem, because everything on my end is fine. As long as I can go do something else, or text chat, either with that person, or someone else, I don't care what the problem is. Nancy andI don't have any other alternative, since she hasn't bothered with msn messenger, and I don't think she likes to text chat. I don't mind text chatting if everyone else is doing so, or ifthere are others in the room who are in to their own thing, but it's sort of a downer to have to text all the time while others are voice chatting and can respond quicker than me. I have ventrilo, but haven't used it in a long time, because most of the servers are either down, or are broad band, and when I do find a decent dial up server, there's nobody in the rooms, which would be fine for the two of us, but one thing I don't like about ventrilo is there is no way to be notified exactly when someone comes in the room, and I'm quite a bit uncomfortable with that.
wonderwoman
Yeah, voice chat can be hard, but once you get it working and are comfortable with the program, it's fun! For you and your friend, Wonderwoman, I recommend Skype? Maybe that would work for you. Caitlin
Oh and Wonderwoman I'm sure it wasn't your problem, the breakup and all. It was congestion I'm positive. So don't let them say it was on your end ever! hehehe! It could be anything, you're absolutely right! Caitlin
Thanks Caitlin. Well, my computer isn't even in the ball park for skype, it's a 7 year old computer, and it doesn't have nearly enough ram and processor speed, and I'm on dial up, so it wouldn't even worth it to try. This computer has been pretty reliable, knock on wood. The only time I had trouble was when I tried to change my single channel sound card to a turtle beach dual channel card, then jaws wouldn't talk at all. Outside of that, as long as I or no one else tries to tamper with things they don't know anything about, it's very steady, and doesn't give me any trouble.
wonderwoman
Yeah. I used to have a computer that was like that. Skype is good, if you have the requirements to use it. But if not, I'd say Ivocalize is good. Providing, of course, that there's no internet congestion. Hee hee. Caitlin
Well Caitlin, what I like about ivocalize is the ability to text chat with people privately while in voice chat rooms. This comes in very handy when a couple get all wrapped up in themselves and their topic and forget anyone else is there.
wonderwoman
I totally agree with you, Wonderwoman. There's private text chatting, and also public. Like, if a bunch of people get wrapped up in a discussion that the other half of the room isn't interested in, then the other half can have their own discussion in text! It's great! Caitlin
Also, if you aren't already aware of it there is For the people. That's another option for voice/text chat. I'll provide a link to it below:
I don't understand why links I put in board posts don't work? I've double checked and the html code for the link is correct. shrug.
Hmm dunno about the links. But yeah there is Audio Tips too. And CyberSpeaker which are both ivocalize. Caitlin
well, for anyone interested, the link for for the people is,
www.for-the-people.com
But unfortunately, it isn't good for private text chat, and the monitors get all huffy, hot and bothered if you so much as type a line in text. I was on that sight for a long time, but I didn't have good experiences there towards the end, and I wasn't treated nice or fair by the sight director, but oh well, that would've been a perfect topic for the rant board right after it happened. Anyway, I haven't been there in several months, and don't have plans for going back, unless someone wants desperately to talk to me over there, then I would probably go in a private room for 2 with them.
wonderwoman
Yeah, i joined For The People, but haven't gone in as of yet. Lol. Audio-Tips is nicer, although I haven't been on there a ton either. I mean, they're nicer in the way that I wasn't dissed, and I haven't heard of anyone being dissed on there, where i have heard of other such occurences on the For The People. Caitlin
Yeah, there are even a few snobs on audio tips, not many though. and at least, most of the time, when you come in a room, they will speak to you right off, where most of the time if you go in a room on ftp, they might break for one second and say, hi, but then they go right on treating you as if you were invisible. I would get irritated when that happened, but in my room, I couldn't figure out how to say anything about it without blowing my top at the people who did it.
wonderwoman