Niems
Hey all!
Please can I get some advice on some broadcasting issues:
I'm currently at varsity which has a network of about 700 users (outside of campus users) and I have been broadcasting my stream to others on the network by sharing my IP. It's been working fine up until a few nights ago when the amount of listeners has increased. Unfortunately, the broadcast seems to drop every now and then when I have about 15 or more listeners (not such a huge demand for good house here but anyway). It seems to drop to about 10 listeners, and then they have to reconnect. This happens about every 5 minutes once they have all tried to reconnect.
The campus is all 100Mbps and local bandwidth doesnt seem to be an issue, as DC++ works with all the avaliable bandwidth, about 10Mb/s.
I'm broadcasting from a Dell XPS M1530 with a U46DJ. Specs are T9300, 3Gb ram etc. I'm broadcasting using Shoutcast @ 192Kbps and using the default LAME mp3 encoder.
I'd appreciate it if anyone can help me. I'm not sure whether it would help to set up a broadcast server somewhere more central on campus are what.
Any help greatly appreciated!
Please can I get some advice on some broadcasting issues:
I'm currently at varsity which has a network of about 700 users (outside of campus users) and I have been broadcasting my stream to others on the network by sharing my IP. It's been working fine up until a few nights ago when the amount of listeners has increased. Unfortunately, the broadcast seems to drop every now and then when I have about 15 or more listeners (not such a huge demand for good house here but anyway). It seems to drop to about 10 listeners, and then they have to reconnect. This happens about every 5 minutes once they have all tried to reconnect.
The campus is all 100Mbps and local bandwidth doesnt seem to be an issue, as DC++ works with all the avaliable bandwidth, about 10Mb/s.
I'm broadcasting from a Dell XPS M1530 with a U46DJ. Specs are T9300, 3Gb ram etc. I'm broadcasting using Shoutcast @ 192Kbps and using the default LAME mp3 encoder.
I'd appreciate it if anyone can help me. I'm not sure whether it would help to set up a broadcast server somewhere more central on campus are what.
Any help greatly appreciated!
Posté Fri 12 Sep 08 @ 3:01 pm
DJSpecter
well if your using shoutcast what you may want to think about doing is getting a dedicated server to host the actual broadcast and then use your laptop to connect to the server to allow for more users, i would really take a look at hosting it on a linux server since it requires less resources than say windows 2008 server.
Posté Fri 12 Sep 08 @ 3:27 pm