How can people afford to run shoutcast servers?

[Ns1]

Well?

I mean listening to 128kb stream, I assume that's about 900kb/min of bandwidth?

500 people max, assume half of that is utilized and you're talking about 20mb/min, 5 mins/gb, 12gb/hour, 288gb/DAY


And even if it's lower than that, they get no ad revenue, or anything, so how can they do this?

 

[GigaCluster]

Some people get a dedicated line for free. Don't ask me how. Those people can afford to run such servers. I can only afford to run a 56k stream for a max of 3 people on my DSL.

 

[mithrandir2001]

When my cable service was with @Home, I would keep a file-sharer open all day and people would upload 3GB, maybe 4GB, a day. My line was capable of delivering about 10GB a day (not bad for $40/month). I was never told that I was a bandwidth hog either, so perhaps these people you are referring to had @Home or a similar "unlimited" broadband service.

But now I've been neutered to a 128kbps upstream line since @Home is dead. I can't even stream to 3 people @ 56K.

mithrandir~!

 

[vi edit]

They are admins at their places of employement and use their employers paid bandwith.

...not that I'd know anything about that.

 

[PrincessGuard]

College ResNet

 

[Doggiedog]

My buddy is looking at buying an apartment that has a Verizon optical switching station right next door. That building has dedicated OC-3 connections to each apartment!

That's 622MB/s!

I doubt he'd run a Shoutcast server though but he could.