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How can people afford to run shoutcast servers?

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Ns1

No Lifer
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?
 
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.
 
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~!
 
They are admins at their places of employement and use their employers paid bandwith.

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