1. What is TeamSpeak? a. TeamSpeak is voice over IP software that allows users to communicate with each other over the Internet, in much the same way

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1 1. What is TeamSpeak? a. TeamSpeak is voice over IP software that allows users to communicate with each other over the Internet, in much the same way as a conference call. b. TeamSpeak is used extensively in online computer gaming. c. TeamSpeak is Freeware, meaning it is legal for you to use it for free. They also offer a more robust version for a fee. d. It supports Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac. e. The free server version is limited to 32 connections. f. The main competitor to TeamSpeak is Ventrilo. TeamSpeak allows 32 connections in the free version, whereas Ventrilo only allows Let s download and install the TeamSpeak client. a. Open a web browser like Internet Explorer. b. In the Address Bar enter teamspeak.com, and press enter. c. On the TeamSpeak home page, click the Downloads menu, then select TeamSpeak 3 d. I am running a 64 bit version of Windows. I will place a link on screen to another tutorial showing how to check which version of Windows you are using. e. I will click the Download link for the Client 64-bit download. f. On the License Agreement screen, read the License, click to select I Agree, and then click the Submit g. Click No Thanks, take me to the download h. On the Download Information Bar, click the Run This will download the file and then automatically start the installer. i. On the TeamSpeak Client Setup window, click the Next j. On the License Agreement screen, read the license, then click the I Agree k. On the Choose User screen, leave Install for anyone using this computer selected, and click the Next l. On the Choose Install Location screen, click the Next m. On the Choose Configuration Location screen, select Save inside the installation folder, and click the Next You can have it save to the user profile if you like, but i like to store it in the program folder to make it easier to transfer if needed. n. On the Choose Start Menu Folder screen, click the Install 3. Now that we have the client installed let s download and install TeamSpeak Server. a. Back on the TeamSpeak home page, let s click the Download link and select the TeamSpeak 3 link. b. Click the Download button for the Server 64-bit download. c. On the License Agreement screen, read the License, click to select I Agree, and then click the Submit d. Click No Thanks, take me to the download e. When asked what you want to do with the file, click the Save as f. On the Save As window that opens, select the Desktop, and click the Save g. On the Download Information Bar, click the Open h. The zip file will open showing the files inside. i. Click the Extract all files

2 j. I am installing a 64 bit version of Windows. The 64 bit version of Windows stores the 64 bit applications in the c:\program files\ folder, and stores 32 bit applications in the c:\program files (x86). If you are using a 32 bit version of Windows you will only have a C:\Program Files\ folder. k. Click the Browse l. On the Select a destination window, we ll select C:\Program Files\, and click the OK m. Click the Extract n. It will open the Program Files folder. Open the Teamspeak... folder. o. Let s create a desktop shortcut for the TeamSpeak server so we don t have to navigate to this folder every time. p. Right-click on the ts3server file, and select Create shortcut. q. It will create a new file directly below with the same name with shortcut at the end. r. Let s rename this file to something easier to read. s. Right-click on the file and select Rename. t. Enter TeamSpeak Server for the name, and press enter. u. Now right-click, and select cut. v. Right-click somewhere on the desktop that has no icons, and select Paste. 4. Now let s start the TeamSpeak server. a. Now double-click on the TeamSpeak shortcut we just placed on the desktop. b. On the Open File - Security Warning window that opens, deselect the Always ask before opening this file, and click the Run c. On the Windows Security Alert window that opens, leave the default of Private networks, such as my home or work network, and click the Allow access d. On the TeamSpeak 3 Server window that opens, click the copy to clipboard button for the Login Name, Password, and Token, and then paste it in Notepad or another text editor. It s very important that you save this information as you won t be able to view it again. The Server Admin Token is used to gain complete administrative control over the TeamSpeak server. With this you can change all configuration and setting options. e. Click the close f. If we now look in the system tray we can see a new icon for the TeamSpeak 3 Server. g. If you don t see it, click the Show Hidden Icons button, and click the customize h. Find the entry for the TeamSpeak 3 Server, and select Show icon and notifications i. Click the OK 5. Now let s start the TeamSpeak Client and connect to the TeamSpeak Server to complete the configuration. a. Double click on the TeamSpeak Client shortcut on the desktop. b. On the TeamSpeak Setup Wizard screen, click the Next

3 i. Enter a NickName, and click the Next ii. On the Microphone Settings screen, you have two options. The default of Voice Activation Detection means that when the mic detects that the noise is loud enough, it will turn on the mic so everyone can hear you. This is nice if you have a quiet background, and runs into problems if there is a lot of background noise. Push to talk means that you need to press a key on the keyboard to be able to speak. iii. We will select the Push-to-talk radio iv. Click the No Hotkey Assigned v. Press whatever key combination you like. I will enter Shift + Ctrl. vi. Once selected click the Next vii. On the Test Your Microphone screen, you can test the mic if you like, and then click the Next viii. On the Use Key Bindings screen, we will no assign a key as it is muted unless we are press our key combination. Click the Next ix. On the Select Sound Pack screen, select a sound pack if you like, then click the Next x. On the Select Plugins screen, you can enable the available features if you like. We will not cover them here. Then click then Next xi. On the All Done screen, deselect all options, and click the Finish c. Now that the first run setup wizard is complete, let s connect to the server we created. i. Click the Connections menu, then Connect. ii. On the Connect window. 1. Server Address. I have the server running on my local computer so for the basic setup I will use localhost. This means it will point to the same computer I am on. 2. Nickname. Enter whatever nickname you like. 3. Server Password. Leave this blank for now, as we have not created a password yet. 4. Click the Connect iii. You should hear a voice say Connected if all is well. iv. On the Use Privilege Key window, enter the Token recorded when we first started the TeamSpeak server. v. If it is correct you will see an Info window stating that Privilege Key successfully used. Click the OK vi. Once the key is applied we have full admin rights, which are represented by the Super Admin badge to the right of our name. vii. Let s edit the configuration options. viii. Right-click on the server and select Edit Virtual Server. ix. Click the More button to expand the options. x. Server Name:. Enter any name you like. This is the name everyone will see when they connect to the server.

4 xi. You can enter a Phonetic Name if you like. We will skip this. xii. Password. This is the password regular users will use to connect to the server. Enter password. For this tutorial I will just enter password for the password. xiii. Maximum Clients:. Leave the default of 32 clients initially. If the performance is poor or you have an older computer, you could try to reduce the number of users allowed on the server at any one time. xiv. Let s click the OK button to save the changes and exit. xv. The Password Confirmation window will open. xvi. Enter the password created previously. I will enter password, and press enter. d. Now that we have setup the server we will create a new channel. There is a Default Channel that it drops people into when they first connect. Depending on how many people are on the server, it might be hard to speak, and you will want to create new channels to separate the conversations. i. Right-click on the server and select Create Channel. ii. The Create Channel window will open. 1. Name:. This is the name users will see for this channel under the server. I will enter JAG Channel. 2. Password. Enter a password for the channel. This is not an administrative password, this is just a password every user will have to use to enter then channel. 3. You can enter a topic if you like. 4. Description. Enter a description of the channel to explain what the channel is for. I will enter General Chat. 5. Channel Type. There are three options for the channel type. a. Temporary. This channel will auto-delete when all of the users have left the channel. b. Semi-Permanent. This option creates a channel that will delete the next time the server reboots. c. Permanent. This will create a channel that is persistent on the server and is not removed unless you delete it manually. 6. Let s select the Permanent radio button for Channel Type. 7. If you want this new channel to be the default channel on the server you can select Default Channel. I will select this option. 8. If you want you can change the sort order of the channels. 9. Let s click the Audio 10. Here is where the audio quality for the channel is set. 11. Higher settings create a channel with better sound quality, but will require more bandwidth. Some users will have slower connects and might require a special channel with a lower bandwidth setting.

5 12. Click the OK button to create the new channel. e. We will create two different types of Privilege Keys. One will be a Server Group admin, and the other will be a Channel Group admin. i. Click on the Permissions menu, then select Privilege Keys. ii. First we will create a new key for a Server Group admin. This account will be able to make changes to any of the server settings, like creating new channels. 1. Click the Create 2. On the Add Privilege Key window. a. Type. Leave the default of Server Group. b. Group. Change the group to Server Admin. c. Description. Enter a description for the key. I will enter Co-Admin. d. Click the Create button to generate a new privilege key. Each key that you create can only be used one time. e. Now click the Copy to clipboard f. You can now sent this in an to whomever the account was created for. g. Click the Close button to create the new Privilege Key. iii. For our second key we will create a new Channel Group admin key. 1. Click the Create 2. Change the Type: to Channel Group. 3. Change the Group: to Channel Admin. 4. Channel. Select the channel you want to give this key permission to administer. We will select the JAGChannel created earlier. 5. Enter a description. I will enter Channel Admin. 6. Now click the Create button to generate the privilege key. 7. Now click the Copy to clipboard 8. Click the Close iv. Click the Close button when the keys have been created. 6. We now need to properly forward our TeamSpeak ports. Ports 9987, 10011, and need to be forwarded to the TeamSpeak server. Every router type will have a slightly different set of steps to forward a port to your computer. You can get a step by step guide for your router type for teamspeak from portforward.com a. You will need to find the IP address of the computer with your TeamSpeak server running on it. i. Click on the Windows Start button, All Programs, Accessories, and then select Command Prompt. ii. A new Windows command prompt window will open. iii. Type in IPCONFIG, and press enter. iv. You may have more than one network adapter listed. If you are connecting with a cable to your computer, it will show under Ethernet

6 adapter Local Area Connection. If you are connecting wirelessly it will show Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:. v. I am connecting with a network cable. My IP address is The Default Gateway is the IP address of your router. vi. Write down both of these numbers for use setting up the port forwarding later. b. Open a web browser like Internet Explorer. c. In the Address Bar enter Portforward.com, and press enter. d. Scroll down. e. Select your router type. You can find your router type by looking at the sticker on the bottom of the router. I have a DGN2000. f. Click the Click here to skip this advertisement... link. g. Now we need to find and select TeamSpeak 3 Server. h. Follow the directions to forward the TeamSpeak ports to your server. i. Unless your router supports DHCP reservations, or the ability to assign the same IP address to the same computer every time it connects, your IP address will change over time. This will prevent TeamSpeak from working until you go back and change the IP address in your router to forward to the new address. 7. Now even though your setup with be slightly different. I am going to go through the setup on my router so you can get an idea of what to expect. This is not the steps you will take. You need to follow the document at portforward.com. a. We ll open a web browser like Internet Explorer. b. In the address bar we ll enter the IP address of the router, which for me is c. I need to first setup the new service. d. Add custom service. e. The name will be TS9987. f. We ll select TCP/UDP for the port type. g. The start and end ports will both be h. Click the Apply i. By default TeamSpeak uses ports 9987, 10011, and j. We just created the first one here. I ll go through and create the two more for the other ports. k. Now that i ve created the 3 different services, which are basically mapping this name to this port. l. I need to create the firewall rules that send those ports from my outside router IP address to my inside server. m. Click the Firewall Rules. n. Under Inbound services click Add. o. Click the Drop down for services. p. I ll see my 3 new services listed here. I need to go through the same steps for all three. q. Select the Service. r. The action is always allow.

7 s. Send to LAN server. This is the IP address of the server we got earlier. In my case it s t. Then I ll click Apply. u. Now I ll repeat on the next two ports. v. Now here we can see my 3 new rules for TeamSpeak. Ports 9987, 10011, and w. They are always allowed. x. It s going to send that traffic when it hits the outside to my internal IP address of , which is my TeamSpeak server. y. After all this, it s very important, you have to click Apply. 8. For other people to be able to connect to this new TeamSpeak server we need to find out what the IP address of our router is. Users will connect to this IP address, where the router will forward the traffic onto your server. a. Right-click on the TeamSpeak Server icon in the system tray, and select Wan IP. b. Below request it will list the IP address of your router. If you left click on this one time it will copy it to your clipboard. c. Make note of this to be able to give it to your users. When your router is rebooted it may pick up a new IP address. You will need to check this and give out the updated address if it changes. d. You could use DYNDNS or another utility to monitor and update your routers IP address as it changes. This will allow you to create a name like MYTeamSpeakServer.MYDOMAIN.COM. The DYNDNS service will monitor your IP and update it as it changes. This is much easier for users to remember than the IP address. I will create a video on DYNDNS at a later date and link to it here. You have to log in and confirm your account every few months or it will turn off. This is very easy though. 9. We could now just connect to the TeamSpeak server, but I will show you how to test the ports to make sure they are forwarding properly. This is useful in determining whether the root of the problem is the port forwarding, or an issue with the TeamSpeak Client configuration. There is software to do this, but it is real easy to do from a Windows command line. a. Click the Windows start button, All Programs, Accessories, and then select Command Prompt. b. By default Windows 7 does not install the Telnet Client. To perform the following test you will need to install the Telnet Client. In the open command prompt type in telnet. If it says Telnet is not recognized as an internal or external command then telnet needs to be installed. You can skip this and go directly to connecting with the client if you wish, and then come back to run this test if you have trouble. i. Click the Windows Start button, then click Control Panel. ii. On the Control Panel window, click Programs. iii. In the Programs and Features section, click Turn Windows features on or off. iv. In the Windows Features list, select Telnet Client, and then click the OK

8 v. If prompted reboot the computer. c. In the Windows command prompt we need to enter the command in the following format telnet WanIP port. i. At the command prompt we will type telnet WanIP ii. If it is successful you should see Welcome to the TeamSpeak 3 ServerQuery Interface. iii. Type in quit and press enter to close the connection. iv. If the port is not forwarding from your router to your computer correctly you will get the message Could not open connection to host. v. If you try port 9987 it will show as not open, but that is normal. Assuming you set up each of the port forwarding rules the same it should work. vi. If you try port it will show a blinking cursor if it is open. 10. Now the TeamSpeak client we used to connect to the server has the privilege key saved for the serveradmin account. If we try to connect it will always use this key and not prompt for a password on connecting. I installed another instance of the TeamSpeak client to show you what happens when you try to connect with a regular user account. a. We will open the clean TeamSpeak client. b. Click the Connections menu, and then select Connect. c. For the Server Address this time we will enter the Wan IP we got earlier. By default it will connect to the default port of If you enter the WanIP:PortNumber, it will connect to whatever port you enter after the colon. d. Enter a nickname. I ll enter JAGTutorials. e. Click the Connect f. On the Password window, enter the password, which in this case is password, and click the OK g. If we right, click on the channel and select Edit Channel, we can see that all of the options are greyed out so regular users can t change settings. This is just an example, they can t change any of the server settings. 11. Now the final step is not necessary. When you restart your computer the TeamSpeak server will not start back up. That means that if it reboots for whatever reason, you will have to start it manually. I prefer to have it automatically start with Windows for when i m not around my computer. a. Right-click on the TeamSpeak Server shortcut on the desktop, and select Create Shortcut. b. It will create a new shortcut named TeamSpeak Server (2). c. Right-click on this shortcut,and select Cut. d. Now click the Windows Start button, then All Programs. e. Scroll down to Startup. Notice the folder is empty. f. Right-click and select Open All Users. g. Right-click in the folder that opens and select Paste. h. Now if we click back on the Windows Start button again, All Programs, under Startup we now have Windows Task Manager. 12. This should give you a good understanding of how to download and install the TeamSpeak Client and Server, connect to the server and complete the initial setup,

9 create new privilege keys, create new channels, and setup the router to properly forward the TeamSpeak traffic to your server.