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Internet Radio and Work network

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  • 17-10-2003 2:00pm
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    daveg
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    Question for all you admins out there. Would internet radio (ie BBC radio 5 live and such - 46kbps) be heavy on the network at work In other words if I'm listening on-line whilst at work would it slow the internet pipe down?

    Thanks in advance.


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Good question - I've no direct experiance - but look at the Maths.

    If you have dial up - Ouch.
    If you had a 128Kbs Leased Line it would take a large chunk of it.
    If you had ADSL then you are sharing 2Mb with 20-48 other subscribers so again might load it a lot.

    Now if it uses the full 46kbs then
    46Kbs = 5.75kBs = 20,700KB/hr (20MB)
    == 496 MB /day == 14GB per month

    Overall it might be cheaper to buy a second hand sky disk - pop the card in upside down, than it would be to pay for the increse in bandwidth needed to get the work network back as was.

    Note: you'd probably need to get an IMRO license too.


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    daveg
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    We have a 512K connection. Company has approx 250 employees.


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