JamesClancy.com BLOG: Streaming Radio/Video and internet speeds Part 1 of 2

If you are going to be listening to the radio over the internet, or watching "LIVE" t.v. as it happens over the internet, you should know about speeds and how they affect your internet.

First, some defintions.
STREAMING - this is NOT YouTube, Google Video, or any other type of video site that had Audio or video already PRE-recorded and then uploaded to some website. When something was already recorded and then uploaded to watch again and again by whoever wants to log on and see it....this is NOT 'streaming'. I am NOT talking about this type of website in this blog entry today.

BANDWIDTH - This is the method and terminolgy to measure the speed of your internet. A car's method is MPH (Miles Per Hour), ships on the ocean use Knts (Knots, or Nautical Miles per Hour), the internet uses Bandwith.(Kbps, Mbps).

Bandwith speeds are provided in "Per Second" increments. So if a bandwidth is 1024 bits per second, that is equal to 1 Kilobyte per second(or 1 KB/ps....since....1024 of any measurement is equal to the next higher level of measurement.

THE MEASUREMENTS
bit (the size of 1 letter of the alphabet),
Byte(8-bits),
Kilobyte (1024 bytes),
Megabyte(1024 Kilobytes)
Gigabyte(1024 Megabytes).
There are more but this is as far as you need to know for the purposes of streaming radio.

Your internet music website usually states their Bandwidth in Kilobits per second, or Kbps.
Divide the stream kbps rate by 8 and you will get the kilobytes/second it uses..
Multiply by 60 to get Kilobytes per minute
Multiply by 60 again to get Kilobytes per hour
Divide by 1024 to get equivalent Megabytes per hour

SO.....

Bites Rates

Bit Rates Total

So let's take our new-found knowledge of speeds and apply it to the speed of YOUR internet and how listening to live music is better in some places than others. This is where my next blog will begin for you in Part 2 of 2.

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