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From: elw

To: LPFM_Radio@...

Cc: barry@...

Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 7:57 AM

Subject: RE: [LPFM] Internet streaming: how to do it?

 

You could try sending it direct to your listeners yourself but yes, you would need a major connection at considerable expense (10 gig pipe and huge traffic limits to overseas maybe).  Another option would be to relay your signal to another provider which then sends your signal to your listeners.  There are quite a few companies that offer this service like mediacast (I think Ross uses them) but you will need a lot of bandwidth to relay to overseas – I have found it uses somewhere around 35-40 Gig a month to relay Heaven FM in 64Kb Ogg Vorbis 24/7.  The only feasible way I found at this stage was to relay to a NZ streaming company using a Telstra 2Meg connection (one tenth bandwidth usage for local traffic) and let them send it out to your listeners.  If you’re still interested after all that, drop this guy a line – tell him I sent you (hehe), and he may be able to hook you up with an NZ based relay service for around $50-60 month  ;)  barry@...

 

Just drop me a line if you got any other questions…

 

Cheers

Leigh

www.HeavenFM.com