nullset
Nov 24 2001, 18:56
Okay, this is just too weird, I had to post it.
So I'm at the Radishville T-1 server, waiting to get in game. All of a sudden I'm hearing this gibberish coming over the voice com channel, almost like salsa beats. So I start saying "no voice coms please" and so on; but everyone claims not to be using them, and everyone says they can't hear what I'm hearing.
So I log off/log on, goes away as soon as I leave the "Waiting" screen. After a few minutes, I start to hear it again. Same thing; no one else can hear it, no one claims to be using voice com. I check all my background apps and shut everything down. Back in game, log off/log on. After a few minutes, it comes back. . . but this time, it's clear enough where I can understand the words. It turns out to be a Spanish-language radio commercial for Verizon Wireless. Very clearly, somehow, some spanish internet stream is being redirected to my voice com. Perhaps someone ELSE was listening to it, and it was being dumped into my voice channel? I'll never know, but SOMETHING is severely messed up with the voice channel.
No, don't suggest it was some other app running in the background, I wasn't running anything else. Don't imply that it was in any way something that I was doing; never had anything like this ever before. I just want to know if anyone's ever gotten weird things like this over the voice channel. Thanks.
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So I'm at the Radishville T-1 server, waiting to get in game. All of a sudden I'm hearing this gibberish coming over the voice com channel, almost like salsa beats. So I start saying "no voice coms please" and so on; but everyone claims not to be using them, and everyone says they can't hear what I'm hearing.
So I log off/log on, goes away as soon as I leave the "Waiting" screen. After a few minutes, I start to hear it again. Same thing; no one else can hear it, no one claims to be using voice com. I check all my background apps and shut everything down. Back in game, log off/log on. After a few minutes, it comes back. . . but this time, it's clear enough where I can understand the words. It turns out to be a Spanish-language radio commercial for Verizon Wireless. Very clearly, somehow, some spanish internet stream is being redirected to my voice com. Perhaps someone ELSE was listening to it, and it was being dumped into my voice channel? I'll never know, but SOMETHING is severely messed up with the voice channel.
No, don't suggest it was some other app running in the background, I wasn't running anything else. Don't imply that it was in any way something that I was doing; never had anything like this ever before. I just want to know if anyone's ever gotten weird things like this over the voice channel. Thanks.
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