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| Thread ID: 106248 | 2010-01-02 07:23:00 | A question.. | korora (15045) | PC World Chat |
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| 844835 | 2010-01-02 07:23:00 | I recently found this site player.play.it its a website where you can listen to American radio stations live. What I wanted to know is, how much internet (in terms of megabytes per hour) would a website like this use?? Because the US has so many great radio stations and we're limited to the edge and the rock here, so im keen to listen to a states station if it isn't to harsh on the usage meter. thanks to anyone that can help |
korora (15045) | ||
| 844836 | 2010-01-02 07:25:00 | Not sure give it a go for an hour then look at your usage, I listen to NZ stations and occasionally UK ones and it doesn't seem to use much. UK ones tend to be better quality than US ones | gary67 (56) | ||
| 844837 | 2010-01-02 07:27:00 | Not sure give it a go for an hour then look at your usage, I listen to NZ stations and occasionally UK ones and it doesn't seem to use much. UK ones tend to be better quality than US ones ok thanks, what site do you use for the pom stations? thanks |
korora (15045) | ||
| 844838 | 2010-01-02 07:31:00 | just go directly to them I listen to Virgin radio mostly and sometimes Invicta FM as they are broadcasting in the area I'm from. Just found Invicta is now called Heart and not available any more outside the UK but I bypassed this using my old post code. Vigin is now worldwide hadn't listened for a couple of months its changed and is good |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 844839 | 2010-01-02 08:30:00 | Quoting from site: "What type of Internet Connection do I need? All radio stations are available to narrowband (dial-up) and broadband users, but they will receive those stations at different bit rates to ensure the optimal experience for their bandwidth. Broadband listeners should be prepared to handle a stream of around 64 Kbps, while narrowband will come in at around 32 Kbps." So it is "left as an exercise for the reader" as the text books say, to calculate how many MB will be downloaded per hour if the stream is at 64kbps...:) Edit: the 1920s/30s lo-fi 78rpm streaming audio at 24kbps I listen to and often record for hours at a time consumes almost stuff all........ so 64kbps will only be about less than 3 times stuff all.... |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 844840 | 2010-01-02 19:36:00 | Ah thanks for that Terry | gary67 (56) | ||
| 844841 | 2010-01-02 19:47:00 | while narrowband will come in at around 32 Kbps." At the shop I used to have BFM on all day at 32kbps. Never noticed any kind of increase in usage on that. So I'd say it's minimal. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 844842 | 2010-01-02 21:08:00 | What I wanted to know is, how much internet (in terms of megabytes per hour) would a website like this use?? you will be looking at about then 30MB per hour, or less depending on quality. even high quality audio stream will only be 45-50MB per hour. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 844843 | 2010-01-03 01:28:00 | To be sure you could just limit your internet/network usage to the one radio channel and watch the network usage, should give you an idea | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 844844 | 2010-01-04 02:16:00 | At the shop I used to have BFM on all day at 32kbps. Never noticed any kind of increase in usage on that. So I'd say it's minimal. Which I think was the point of the question. |
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