Genres: Voice Communication
Release Date: October 30, 2001
Developer: TeamSpeak Team
Official Website: TeamSpeak Classic
TeamSpeak was written out of frustration with available similar products. Being two hardcore team game players, the creators of TeamSpeak could not find a (freeware) program that suited all their
needs. The demands they had seemed simple. They wanted reasonable voice quality (so you can actually understand each other), low bandwidth usage (for the
poor people with isdn) and no connection troubles (if you can play a game on
internet, you must be able to use TeamSpeak).

Surprisingly, they found no such program. Most popular were RogerWilco and Battlecom.

RogerWilco has an awful sound quality and uses tcp to send voice data. This is a bad idea and fills up low bandwidth connections really fast. Battlecom has a nice voice quality, but has an awful network protocol. Odds are, that if you share your Internet connection (ICS, MASQUERADE) you can't use battlecom.

So they created TeamSpeak. It uses only 640 bytes per second upstream MAXIMUM. It has a reasonable voice quality and it can almost always connect. If you can play a game on internet, you can use TeamSpeak. Because they are nice guys and want to make the gaming community more interesting, they decided to make TeamSpeak freeware. This means that you can download it and use it for free. Also they did not include any annoying banners or shit like that. Totally free, totally no shit.

So enjoy this little program and improve your teamplay with it.