From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 26 21:00:55 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FAC710656A3 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:00:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Received: from ifdnrg29.ifdnrg.com (outbound.ifdnrg.com [193.200.98.138]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C878FC17 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:00:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.65] (188-221-77-161.zone12.bethere.co.uk [188.221.77.161]) (authenticated bits=0) by ifdnrg29.ifdnrg.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p0QL0oX8030976; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:00:52 GMT (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Message-ID: <4D408B81.3080000@ifdnrg.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:00:49 +0000 From: Paul Macdonald User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <20110125235413.GA69716@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20110125235413.GA69716@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Streams fail, more/less. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:00:55 -0000 On 25/01/2011 23:54, Gary Kline wrote: > The _last_ thing that I need to resolve--or at least to understand, is why > streams suddenly stopped working about two weeks ago. With all the other > hassles, I didn't want to check and see if streams worked here on my server > --they don't. The streams stall after a few seconds or a few minutes on my > Ubuntu desktop. The youtube streams always worked before. No more. > > Meanwhile I have no trouble downloading source or packages at 110 to 170kpbs . > But the streams fail: both audio and video. I have zero idea even where to > begin looking to fix this problem. > > Anybody know? > > thanks in advance, > > gary > > > PS: some audio will streams at very slow rate ... but usually stops after a > few minutes. > > this is probably just an insufficient bandwidth problem, check the bitrate of the streams you are listening, try lower bitrate ones ( 64kbps or even 32kbps) to verify that there's no other problem. Check your residential dsl package speed ( i use www.speedtest.net but there might be a better one near you, google dsl speed test). Test it against a local POP that you think hosts streams, ie soemwhere where there's lot of data centers. You will get different download speeds from different services online depending on how they and you are connected, but in general, 170Kbps isn't very fast, especially as a lot of streaming stattions will be 128 or poss even 192Kbps. Paul. ------------------------- Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting ------------------------- t: 0131 5548070 m: 07534206249 e: paul@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com ------------------------- IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA -------------------------