Software needed for lan

[Rik]

Hi, I have a friend lives next door and we have a wireless network running.
What we would like to be able to do is talk via headset over lan.
I was wondering if anyone knew of a good bit of software to facilitate this????

 

[N3051M]

so.. something short of VOIP and regular IM clients like MSN, Y! etc.?

and i'm guessing a freeware as well?

there's lan messenger but i don't know if it supports voice chatting http://sourceforge.net/projects/lanmessenger

Otherwise there's google and looking at open source sites

 

[Rik]

Managed to google a prog called lan chat but its no good, have to hold the ctrl key down to chat. We would like to be able to play games via lan and be able to talk at the same time really!!!!

Sorry, i should have explained better in my first post!!!!

Will give lan messenger a try tomorrow, thanx for the help N3051M!!!!

 

[Rick]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventrilo

?

 

[Rik]

Thanx Rick, but thats no use to me. I want voice over lan, not voice over ip!!!!

 

[Rick]

Almost any 'voice over lan' product could be described as VOIP. It is as it implies... Voice over IP and your network probably does indeed use TCP/IP.

Ventrilo requires one computer be the host and an IP based network - that's it.

 

[HillJack]

I use TeamTalk. Works great for gaming and just about anything else we need.