Elliot Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Anyone use this for gaming, or just chatting? Any advice? Pros and cons? I was thinking of buying it for a group I play with on World of Warcraft. plus my girlfriends mum lives in New Zealand so might work slightly out cheaper than phoning! ALSO, can anyone recommend a decent headset? I know there's loads around, but it would be great if anyone could point me in the right direction, if they've bought one recently. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 yeah, good idea... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Ive used it for chatting, yeah its good for home use. Teamspaek for games is much better, less lag but you need a server to host it. if its basic chatting then any £10/15 headset will do you fine. If you want to spend a little more then a speedlink medusa 5.1 will do you nicely hth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragaz Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Yeah I gave it a whirl and Thought it sucked IMHO. I now use Ventrilo or TeamSpeak. Ventrilo Rocks!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot Posted March 6, 2006 Author Share Posted March 6, 2006 Thanks for the quick replies guys. Can you use teamspeak for chatting free to other parts of the world? (ie NZ) I would only want to go for one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 how about from a cheap chat point of view? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot Posted March 6, 2006 Author Share Posted March 6, 2006 Ahh, just realised you need a server for teamspeak from reading DamanC' post again. Skype sounds easier speedlink medusa 5.1 ? Might go check that out now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 cheap/free chat point of view then skype is what you want Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot Posted March 6, 2006 Author Share Posted March 6, 2006 Daman, do you have "speedlink medusa 5.1"? Do you know the best place to buy? I've seen a few. One was for £35, but that might have delivery as well, not sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 yes fella, I got mine from http://www.overclockers.co.uk (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_SpeedLink.html) top ones, mine were on offer at the time, think i payed around £35 + VAT and DEL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot Posted March 6, 2006 Author Share Posted March 6, 2006 yes fella, I got mine from http://www.overclockers.co.uk (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_SpeedLink.html) top ones, mine were on offer at the time, think i payed around £35 + VAT and DEL Thanks again! Which ones? The ones at the bottom of the page? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 top ones are for use with a soundcard and the bottom ones are for use via usb (only get if you have a poop soundcard) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 OK, I've got the USB Medusa 5.1 headset, but it said it needs 60% of my bandwith!? It keeps crashing my computer as well when I use certain features in the programme (headset, not skype) nightmare! any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Never heard of that before, cant really help as mine doesnt have drivers as it unterlise's my sound card. maybe worh uninstalling the software/drivers and reinstalling it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branners Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 have any of you checked the technology behind skype? Remember Kazaa and the super node technology...well Skype was built by the Kazaa people and when you have it installed and running it could well use you as a super node and route data through your machine. It can be a bandwidth hog and I certainly didnt like the concept of being a super node in Kazaa... JB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supra-Dupra Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Anyone else tried google talk, small application runs on alot lower memory..I find it great when playing games and chatting at the same time, far better than msn, yahoo, skype, paltalk, which create some lag and strain on the pc and on other big applications running. Also voipbuster is another good one, and offers free calls to landlines in europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot Posted March 18, 2006 Author Share Posted March 18, 2006 I thought it was the headphones shutting things down as I haven't even got onto Skype with them yet! Anyone else got these headphones & had problems? My PC is about a year old, was quite a good one at the time IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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