[cma-l] Streaming Advice needed

[Eddie Stuart]

Hi Gary,

I would guess that its a bandwidth problem which is why we send 1 stream to Canstream and they stream to however many listeners.....

Also, if you are on domestic broadband you probably have a contention ratio of 50:1 (as opposed to 10:1 for business) so you could theoretically be sharing your notional broadband rate with 49 other people. If they all upload big files at the same time, you will notice a big slowdown in your upload speed.

Remember that your download speed is what ISPs quote you, your upload speed is almost certainly less......

Hope that that helps?

Cheers,

Eddie

On 28/10/2011 14:01, Gary Jackson wrote:
> This is actually a personal question as I can't obtain answers anywhere
> else, but I would be grateful for any advice, and my station does use
> canstream ;-) .
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> I'm testing to see whether I can host my own stream at home. I know
> there are licences to be bought but I'm not there yet!
>
> SAM Broadcaster's encoder is streaming to the icecast2 server.
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> Icecast says it's runnng, and even gives the listener url in it's mount
> screen, but connecting to the url constantly times out. It's my public
> url not localhost.
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> http://canyouseeme.org/ says my port is open and it can see my service.
>
> Puzzled...
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> Gary
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