Introduction

Mumble is designed for communicating with minimal delay between users.

If you want to experience this for yourself, connect to our public mumble server. Server details are in the right column.

If you want a comparison that you can listen to, check out this link: http://gcguild.net/movie/ventrilo-vs-teamspeak-vs-mumble

Out of the box it should work 'fine' for most people. There are some things you might want to know if you wish to get the optimal experience out of Mumble:

1. Complete the Audio Wizard. Read what it says. Do not just blindly click next. It takes all of a minute to configure everything properly and your voice will sound much better. The audio wizard adjusts settings not available in the program options, so you really need to do it.
2. The help feature is well done. If you don't know what something means, click the '?' icon (or help > whats this?) then click what you are wanting to know about. It will probably explain it in full.
3. Mumble by default used certificate based authentication. See the certificates section for more info. Our public mumble server requires you to have a certificate to connect.
4. Mumble displays Users and Channels differently than other programs like teamspeak and ventrilo by default, and is similar to how files/folders are sorted in windows, with subchannels being folder, and users appearing under them as files. This is explained further in the channel sorting section. It can be confusing, but you can switch it to how ventrilo and teamspeak display people by default. This requires you to restart the client. Once again, see the channel sorting section for more info.
5. Noise Suppression can help with filtering out background noise, but also can make your voice sound metallic. Check the sound quality page for more info.