Ventrilo Tutorials and Walkthroughs
These flash tutorials will show you step-by-step how to utilize the most common features available in Ventrilo. Although most of the walkthroughs show you how to complete common administrative tasks on your Ventrilo server, the How to Connect to a Ventrilo Server tutorial guides new Ventrilo users through the process of connecting to a Ventrilo server.
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Connecting to your Ventrilo server may seem like a simple task after doing it for the first time, but new users often find it more difficult. This flash tutorial will guide you through setting up a username in your Ventrilo client and connecting to a Ventrilo server:
Although you can use our control panel to administer your Ventrilo server, it's often more convenient to perform administrative tasks directly through the Ventrilo client software. However, this requires that you log in to your Ventrilo server using the administrator password. The following flash tutorial shows you how to do this:
Performance and uptime is our highest priority. Our network engineers work hard to guarantee low pings and zero packet loss. Sometimes a client's route to our hosting network will cause users to experience lag and packet loss. This can quickly be corrected after you help us identify where the problem lies. The following tutorial will walk you through executing a "pathping" command on your system and reporting the results to us:
Creating Away From Keyboard (AFK) channels on your Ventrilo server is an easy way to automatically move idle users to a different channel. The following tutorial will show you how to create an AFK channel and then configure your server to automatically move idle users to that channel after a specified period of time:
You can create a username and password that will automatically grant you administrative permissions upon connecting to your Ventrilo server. The following tutorial guides you through the process of creating user accounts on your Ventrilo server and granting the accounts administrative privileges. The tutorial will also show you how to log in to your server with your new username and password:
All users who connect to your Ventrilo server are considered Guests unless they login with a username and password. The following tutorial guides you through the process of creating user accounts on your Ventrilo server. The walkthrough will also show you how to remove (Guest) tag that appears next to users who do not login with a username and password:
This tutorial will show you how to administer bans on your Ventrilo server. This tutorial requires that you are connected to the Ventrilo server with administrative privileges.
Channels are used to logically divide conversations among different groups of users connected to your Ventrilo server. Creating and deleting channels is a very common task that can be performed from within the Ventrilo client. This tutorial requires that you are connected to the Ventrilo server with administrative privileges.
The Message of the Day (MOTD) is the notification that appears after connecting to a Ventrilo server. The MOTD is often used to display news and announcements to users who connect to your server. The MOTD and Guest MOTD can be changed quickly and easily through the Ventrilo client. This tutorial requires that you are connected to the Ventrilo server with administrative privileges.
Unlike the name suggests, phantom users are visible to other users in a Ventrilo server. This is not a feature that allows you to hide your presence in a server or in a channel. Instead, phantom users allow you to listen to a conversation in another channel without entering that channel. The following tutorial shows you how to a add phantom users to another channel. Please remember, you must have permission to add phantoms before the option is available to you. This permission is granted from the Network tab of the User Editor in Ventrilo. Even if you are permitted to use phantoms, some channels can be explicitly configured to disable use of this feature.
Ranks are a new feature in the latest version of Ventrilo that allow you to create various ranks on your Ventrilo server and then assign those ranks to specific users who connect. Ranks can be used to prevent certain users from talking inside a channel. Users who do not have a high enough rank cannot transmit while others that do can. Ranks come in very handy when you are leading a massive raid and only want certain high ranking users talking inside that channel.
Creating reserved slots insures that users with the permission to occupy a reserved slot are able to connect to your Ventrilo server during periods of high use. The following tutorial shows you how to configure reserved slots on your ventrilo server. This tutorial requires that you are connected to the Ventrilo server with administrative privileges.
This quick tutorial will show you how to allow connections from the same IP address from within the User Editor in Ventrilo client. You must allow duplicate IP addresses to connect to your server if you would like to allow multiple clients to connect to your Ventrilo server from the same home, school or work network. This tutorial requires that you are connected to the Ventrilo server with administrative privileges.
The latest version of Ventrilo allows you to configure the sound quality on per-channel basis. This is useful when some of the users that connect to your Ventrilo server do not have high speed internet connections and therefore cannot communicate in a channel with a higher quality sound setting. This tutorial guides you through changing the voice quality on a specific channel in your Ventrilo server. This tutorial requires that you are connected to the Ventrilo server with administrative privileges.
