[Imc-aotearoa-tech] Bandwidth for Radio streams

[Under the Radar]

Bandwidth in this country is hideously expensive.  Anyone wanting to stream radio has to overcome this. The best way that I can see with the current situation is to send a stream to an overseas server and then people can hook into it from there.

The problem with this is that it would probably need to be sent on a broadband connection for the sake of connection stability and at the moment the best deal I know of (ihug 10,000 MB cap Jetstart) will still only give us enough to broadcast for less than 8 hours a day on a low quality (16kbs mono) stream.

So the question is: What alternatives exist or will we need to settle for archiving audio files until bandwidth costs come down and just rely on the global stream for a fulltime live stream?

For calculation purposes a minimum quality stream would be a 32kbs Ogg stream, so multiply it out to get 2,764 MB per day and 83 GB per month. (The joke is that this wouldn't exceed the data limit on some standard accounts in the US)

Remember that this is the requirement to get a single signal out to an overseas server for rebroadcast from there.

I guess another option is a dial-up, all you can eat account if it can be made to stay online full time, but when they set up 'all you can eat' accounts I don't think they were envisaging 24hour a day radio streams.

Aaron


Under the Radar
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Raglan Community Radio
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