I have been maintaining web sites for quite some time now and I must say that amongst all of the software that I have encountered, Ventrilo has got to be the best sound software there is. It has been used by tons of online gaming competitions already and Ventrilo hosting never seize to amaze everyone in the know about how web development goes. Users install the Ventrilo client and connect to a Ventrilo server. The Ventrilo client is released as freeware and is available for Microsoft Windows and for Mac OS X, and future support is planned for operating systems based on the Linux kernel. The server is available under a restrictive license and is available for all of these systems as well as Kopi, Solaris, NetBSD and FreeBSD. Although there is no version for Linux, it can be used with WINE. The default sound quality is comparable to a telephone but it can be changed to a higher quality by changing to a different codec. Ventrilo currently supports GSM Full Rate, and Speex as their main codecs. Presently, however, the Mac OS X client is still unable to properly use most servers due to a lack of support for the widely used GSM codec.