Thanks, all, for the suggestions. I had considered the FM transmitter option, but I suspect that smartphones/laptops would be more prevalent among the students than portable FM receivers. It's certainly an option.
Shortly after I posted originally, one of our student employees mentioned Mumble, and I'm looking at that now. I should have known that gaming would be the market sector to look at. As far as using a phone conference and just calling, the trouble is that cell service is pretty abysmal in at least one of the rooms. Then again, the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi is pretty messy too, since the CS Dept at BYU really doesn't seem to understand how to run Wi-Fi very well. So, hopefully everyone will have something that can talk 5 GHz, which is much less noisy. Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu On 09/28/2014 11:47 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Levi Pearson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Lloyd Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Does anyone know of a technological solution that could be used to voice >>> chat with a small group (10-15) people, preferably using wifi, >>> smart-phone apps, etc.? >> >> Voice chat between a small group is very popular in the gaming >> community. Someone already mentioned Ventrilo (aka Vent), and the >> other big player is TeamSpeak, but there's an open source alternative >> called Mumble that has smartphone clients and is supposed to give a >> pretty high-quality experience: http://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page >> >> +1 for Mumble. It doesn't cost anything but bandwidth unlike Vent and TS, > and can be run from a raspberry pi easily. Setup the Pi as a wifi AP to a > private network, have everyone use smartphones, and you're golden. > > I'd also go for a simple VoIP server on such a thing, but setting up a sip > client can be a pain. Your call. > > -Tod Hansmann > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
