Re: Need some guidence on setting up a Multicast for Internet users
- From: "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:48:26 GMT
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 06:50:00 -0700, Mike "YO_BEE" B
<MikeYOBEEB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
First thing first. Is this possible to do without some sort of hosting
service?
Not unless you can negotiate a good link with Telewest that reaches
far more than you currently have for outgoing bandwidth. If you must
stream, then over the public internet it's realistically only going to
be unicast. Beacuse of that, the bandwidth usage is aggregate so
4x128kbps streams will saturate your outgoing connection capacity
Instead, you could consider either setting up a playlist on a public
web server or similar (for low cost) and rotating the playlist nightly
say. Or you could use something hosted like Darwin streaming server
over at Dreamhosts, or a shared windows media services machine on a
microsoft oriented provider.
To be honest, most people expect not much more than 32-48kbps for
radio, so you could gain some by using a lower bitrate for testing.
HTH
Cheers - Neil
If so can someone help with guiding me in the right direction.------------------------------------------------
I am running a very basic broadcast server.
I really do not care about on-demand streams right now.
I am looking to setup a Radio station to run at 128 kbps audio or better for
more users.
Currently I have cable (TW) as my ISP. After a few test from online speed
test sites I avg about 450 Kbps up and more then 3.5 Mbps down.
I have had up to 4 concurrent users on a UNICAST, but this brings me to my
upload limits.
Here is my setup.
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 32bit
2 Ghzs
512 ram
dual nics 10/100 (one for the Internet one for my local encoders)
This is all coming into a Linksys broadband Router.
If anyone knows of any documentation I can be directed to that would be great.
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
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