Billy Sunsteel & Friends Battlefield Communications Where & How To
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How to connect to Billy Sunsteel & Friends Battlefield Communications Utilizing TeamSpeak 3 A voice... in the Battlefield Where & How to Download Teamspeak3 For your System What is needed beforehand First, Before, Downloading, Opening and Setting up the Teamspeak3, a few things will be necessary to have in order to complete that part, they are: A Privilege Key: Allows the player to Connect, and be a Member. Can be obtained through the Billy Sunsteel & Friends website. A Nickname: The name you want to be seen as on Billy Sunsteel & Friends' Battlefield Communications (It can be changed later too.) Note: “Privilege Key” can be obtained at the Billy Sunsteel & Friends website, when it is up. It can be obtained by emailing Billy Sunsteel & Friends. At the present, a “Privilege Key” is not necessary in order to connect, But if you have one, then use it. Next, One must know the “OS” Operating System of the computer or phone they wish to install the Teamspeak3 “Client” on in order to connect to Billy Sunsteel & Friends' Battlefield Communications server. Also, if the OS is Windows or Linux, then check to see if it is a 32-bit, or a 64-bit processor. This will determine which “Client” will be chosen to download. For phones, the OS will be either “Android” or an “iOS” for iPhone, iPad or iPod. Currently, This setup manual is for installation on a computer; However, “client” procedure for phone download and installation should be similar. The Computer OS “Client” download choices are: 1- Windows A) Client 32-bit B) Client 64-bit 2- Mac OS X Client OS X 3- Linux Client AMD 64-bit Client X86 (which is a 32-bit processor. Intel or AMD) The Phone Os “Client” choices are: 1- iOS ( iPhone, iPad, iPod) A) Client 2- Android A) Client Which “OS” does “my” the computer have? HOW TO CHECK “OS” ON MOST WINDOWS COMPUTERS Click on <start> then Right-click <My computer> and select <Properties> then click the <General> “Tab.” You should see “Windows” and “64bit” if it is a 64-bit computer, But if “64-bit” or “32-bit” can not be found, one can assume it is a “32-bit” on Windows OS, as seen in the picture below. (General Tab window view on Xp. Other Windows may be different▼) HOW TO CHECK OTHER “OS” SYSTEMS This will be added another time. ================================================================= == Now the download process: NOTE: A view of TeamSpeak 3's download web page is pictured below. The instructions are in electronic print, as well as, in the picture of the download web page provided further below. Both can be utilized either together or separately, with the instructions: Once, the “OS” is found, go to Teamspeak.com and locate the http://www.teamspeak.com/? page=downloads. «« HERE! Select, the “OS Client download” for your computer. Example: For Windows 32-bit select “Windows Client 32-bit download.” Select, the “Mirror” where you want to download from, either gamed!de or 4Netplayers. (This part could be skipped.) Click <Download> and save either to the location the program has selected, or save to a folder of your choice to keep. Remember where it was saved. (Below: Successfully downloaded “Teamspeak3 client. exe” saved to the computer should be scanned. May have 64 and other numbers after “Win”) ▼ Scan: the download with an Anti-virus program by “Right-clicking” on <TeamSpeak3- Client> and “Selecting” a scanning process on your computer. Billy Sunsteel likes Avast anti-virus program, and Spybot- Search & Destroy. Two programs that are free for home and non-commercial use are available. More on other free, and free for non-commercial use products, that Billy trusts, to secure your computer can be found here. (INSERT LINK HERE) (A View of Teamspeak3 download page complete with instructions as described above, below) ▼ You have successfully downloaded TeamSpeak 3 Client to your computer. (Below: Downloaded “Teamspeak3 client. exe” saved to the computer should be scanned as described in the instructions above. May have 64 and other numbers after “Win”) ▼ Next comes, Open and Setup TeamSpeak 3 ================================================== How to open & setup Teamspeak3 on a computer: After scanning for viruses, On Windows XP, right-click on the teamspeak3 setup.exe file, and select <OPEN> or <Open as Administrator>. For Windows Vista and Windows 7, right-click and select <Open as Administrator> and follow the instructions. ▼ Next, the “Open File- Security Warning” window will display. Now click <RUN>. ▼ this window may or may not show up as the program begins to setup ▼ The “Welcome to the Teamspeak 3 Client Setup Wizard” window will display. Select <Next> ▼ The “License Agreement” window will open. Scroll down and read it, then if you agree... Select and click on <I Agree> or if you disagree, then click on <Cancel> ▼ The “Choose Users” window will open. If you have, or plan to have more than one profile or users on your computer, and you don't care that they will have access to your Teamspeak 3 from their profile, then Select <Install for anyone using this computer>. * This choice will install to your computer's folders at: C:\Program files\Teamspeak 3 Client BUT, If you don't want others on the computer to use your Teamspeak 3, then Select <Install just for me>. Selecting this choice also allows Teamspeak 3 to be installed separately on each profile. • This choice will install to your computer's folders at: C:\Documents and Settings\ What Your “User” Profile Name is \Local Settings\Application Data\Teamspeak 3 Client Now click <Next> ▼ The “Choose Install Location” window is next. Depending on whom you chose as users in the previous window, the “Destination Folder” will be C:\Program files\Teamspeak 3 Client if you chose <Install for anyone using this computer> or C:\Documents and Settings\ What Your “User” Profile Name is \Local Settings\Application Data\Teamspeak 3 Client if chose <Install just for me>. You do have the choice to change the “Destination Folder” by clicking <Browse...>; However, I recommend not changing it, and leave it at what the program choice made. But either choice you make please write down the location of the TeamSpeak 3 file, so it may be saved later when “Saving your Identity” for future reference. Click <Next> ▼ The “Choose Configuration Location” window. Here are two choices to select the location where to store the configuration files: 1- Recommended: Save in user own files 2- Save inside the installation folder Highly recommend choice # 1, save in the user's own files (More Secure) Select <Next> ▼ The “Choose Start Menu Folder” window. The Start menu folder may be changed if you have a special reason to do so, which I will not get into here. I usually leave this as is, and leave “Do not create shortcuts” unticked. Click <Install> ▼ The “Installing” window will open. Here the slide bar will show the installing progress. This picture is showing the “Installing” process in action. The option to click <Show details> may be selected to see a list of files being installed on your computer. (The next window frame and not the one below will “Show the details”) after clicking <Show details> and the completed install process. ▼ The “Installation Complete” window displayed. Here are the “Show details” files. The installation is complete! Select <Close> ▼ Setup of Billy Sunsteel & Friends Battlefield Communications© utilizing Teamspeak 3 The “Welcome to TeamSpeak Setup Wizard” Window. Here will be two windows: 1- TeamSpeak 3 the program, in the background. 2- TeamSpeak 3 Setup Wizard, in the foreground. We will be working with the “TeamSpeak 3 Setup Wizard” ▼ (CONTINUE HERE) ▼ (CONTINUE HERE) ▼ ▼ ================================================== How to connect to Billy Sunsteel & Friends Battlefield Communications A voice... in the Battlefield For the first time Connect to Billy Sunsteel & Friends Battlefield Communications© utilizing Teamspeak 3 [First Window] After downloading and setting up, the “Capture” and “Playback” settings in your Teamspeak3 “Client” on your computer, be it Windows 32 or 64-bit, you will want to connect to Billy Sunsteel & Friends Battlefield Communications Server, so with the Teamspeak3 “Client” open, just follow the instructions in the pictures below. ▼ ======================================================================================= ================== [SECOND WINDOW] After selecting <Connect> in step 2, this window below will open, the <▼MORE> button on the bottom left side (where this picture shows it as <▲Less>) may need to be “Clicked” to view MORE of the window as shown here. Now, just fill in the information. These items must be included: * • Server IP Address with Port: The “Current” IP Address to connect to BattleCom. (IP Address & Port shown here are for illustration purposes only.) * • Nickname: The name you want to be seen as, when you are in BattleCom. (Nickname can be changed later again, when in BattleCom.) * • Server Password: The “Current” Password for BattleCom. (“letsplay” happens to be current, but may not be utilized once “Privilege Keys” for level protection come into change with the website.) * • One-Time Privilege Key or Token: Copy & Paste the one you received. ( Privilege Keys will be obtainable through the Billy Sunsteel & Friends Website after signing up as a Basic Member. It's FREE!) * • Phonetic Nickname: This is the spelling of what your nickname would “Sound” like. Ex: [Billy] [Sunsteel] phonetically looks like [Bill-e] [Sun-steel] • For now, leave the rest as they are, or as seen here. *Note: In the future, a “One-Time Privilege Key” or “Token”