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Aaroona

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#29383 5-Jan-2009 20:40

Hi guys,

well, im looking at hosting a Live Video Feed from my place (to talk about mainly tech stuff, based on whatever the viewers ask/want)

Anyways, im just wondering, what am I looking at for bandwidth usage?

I will typically to start off with be broadcasting for maybe 4 hours a day. Using ustream.tv

Can anyone here give me any ideas as to what I might be looking at here?

I know 15gb is not going to go far with this, but im just wondering if I should just start buying 50gb blocks or what.

Cheers

boby55

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#187659 5-Jan-2009 22:57

It all depends on how many users you have watching your live stream. If you only have 2 users lets say they are going to use less bandwith than 20.

I would say buy 25gb block to start with and then if you use that upgrade when needed the following months.

Aaroona

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#187661 5-Jan-2009 23:01

boby55: It all depends on how many users you have watching your live stream. If you only have 2 users lets say they are going to use less bandwith than 20.

I would say buy 25gb block to start with and then if you use that upgrade when needed the following months.

Correct me if im wrong here.. but I thought for some reason (my logic is sometimes.. queer?)

I feed my video to ustream, and then the clients connected off ustream..

so really there should only be one connection from my IP address which is to ustream?

Have i got this right? or have I got myself mixed up?

Cheers

(also, thanks for your help!)

boby55

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#187662 5-Jan-2009 23:05

I have never streamed using ustream, The only streaming ive ever done is straight from my pc to viewers so I proberly am wrong about this.

Aaroona

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#187663 5-Jan-2009 23:08

boby55: I have never streamed using ustream, The only streaming ive ever done is straight from my pc to viewers so I proberly am wrong about this.

Oh okay.. yeah, I know that streaming directly from my PC would mean each and every person would be a different connection.. And like you, im unsure whether being routed through a website would make a difference...

Anyone know!??!

EDIT: corrected an idiotic typo.

nate

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#187746 6-Jan-2009 11:53

Aaroona: I feed my video to ustream, and then the clients connected off ustream..

so really there should only be one connection from my IP address which is to ustream?

Correct. I've used ustream off a mobile data card with 5 or so people watching and it works well.

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#187750 6-Jan-2009 12:21

Your PC connects to UStream. Viewers will connect to the UStream server, and not impact on your usage.

Aaroona

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#187812 6-Jan-2009 15:35

Fantastic, thanks for clearing that up.

I will give it a go for a month, and see what happens.

I just wish Slingshot was able to offer ADSL2+ where I am.. Looks like I might have to swap to Orcon untill slingshot can.