Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 00:02:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Jos Chrispijn <jos@webrz.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Streaming server Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905280000580.55278@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <200905272331.12954.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <4A1A9FF0.40609@webrz.net> <200905272226.05732.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905272233180.54915@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <200905272331.12954.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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> DEST STATE AGE EXP PKTS BYTES > 62.75.158.169:8020 4:4 05:03:05 23:59:59 380K 296M > > 5 hours of online radio and I downloaded 296Meg. I don't want that hitting my > harddisk at all. And if I do, then I can always record it. you don't have to. use for example mplayer with URL as argument. > - Bandwidth: This didn't interrupt noticeably with my work (ssh sessions) and > other web use (port downloads, remote imap, webmail, smtp over ssh, etc) and > I'm currently not using altq. same as above. > > That's just from client perspective. From server perspective, the bandwidth > advantage should be clear. There's no real advantage to gain maintaining altq > rules / mod_bandwidth / foo-solution or a streaming server, except if the > former are already in place. > > Most important is to consider if your users "want to save the file", cause a > lot of clients hide or don't provide this feature. Over time though, as speeds > and availability increase more and more people are seeing the internet as > "another harddrive" so that distinction will fade. anyway lots of people do download things to disks. the disks are usually huge today and mostly unused. > > If I'm correct, Jos is from .nl, where people are spoiled in that respect [1]. > > [1] http://www.upc.nl/internet/ up to 120MBit down, 10Mbit up. > -- > Mel > >
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