Streaming Radio/Video and internet speeds Part 2 of 2
Some office buildings use a speed called a T-1 line. Some other office and homes use DSL, and Cable.
No matter where you get your internet, the provider of that internet charges a monthly fee to give you a given amount of speed. You can have the fastest NASA computer on the planet, but your internet is only going to go as fast as the provider says you have paid for.
Taking the information you have learned from Part 1 of 2, This chart should begin to make some sense. Below it, I will continue to explain how this knowledge is useful when making the decision to use internet radio or not.
T1 is a fully digital signal giving the same speed up and down and called a 'symmetrical signal' because of that feature.
Cable and other broadband is 'asymmetrical' because most regular people do more downloading(surfing) than uploading(running applications).
You can go to http://www.speedtest.net/ to test your speed and see what speed your internet is running at.
If you are at home and listening to streaming radio at 300 Kbps...AND...you have DSL or Cable internet, you should not have too much of a problem unless you have spyware or other applications using the internet at the same time as your Radio Station listening time is happening.
But if you are on a network in an office...where the office only has 1 internet connecion for everyone to use, and 2 people are listening or streaming music, or 3 or 4 or 100....you can see that the internet will slow down for all other employees. Because when people surf the internet to do anythng, they need bandwidth to get there. As we learned from Part 1 of 2, the chart showed that 300 Kbps = 132 MB per hour..and that is constant...or.."Streaming."
Surfing the internet is when you go to a webite and that is the end of it, then you go to your next one..or you get your email and that is all. Bandwidth is not constantly taken up and in use every second.
IN CONCLUSION
Internet radio is a wonderful thing. As the speed of the internet increased, things like this became possible. This was not possible on the old Dial-up at 56Kbps, because Internet radio needs 300Kbps just to function. It is great for home and personal use, but if you are on any sort of network, I would check with your technical people and ask if its ok. They will know what speed they are paying for in that monthly fee. If the office has paid for a top end speed, you are probably ok. But if they have basic DSL, I would imagine the internet in the whole office would slow down because 1 or 2 people are listening to streaming radio somewhere.
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