Well, ideally you would be able to actually host your QTSS Server at an
ISP where there
is plenty of bandwidth, and then only run the QuickTime Broadcaster
software behind
your local ADSL connection. This way you'd be unicasting a single copy
of your stream
to your QTSS server, and then have all your fiends, clients, customers
connecting to
the QTSS server at the ISP (where its assumed that bandwidth would be
much more
plentiful, ie. far greater than merely 128Kbit outgoing).
As for using iTunes clients, yes you can. When you open an HTTP url to
the mountpoint,
iTunes assumes port 80 (if you omit it) in the URL. If by chance you
don't have port 80
streaming enabled on your QTSS server, than the client may not be able
to connect.
The work-around is to either enable streaming on port 80 (on the QTSS
server), or else
to embed some other valid streaming port in your HTTP url's (such as
:554, or even :8000,
which is typtically used for MP3 streaming).
As far as bandwidth restrictions, 128Kbit upload bandwidth is probably
barely enough
to support 2-3 typicaly 30kbit/s modem users, so if you aren't able to
host your QTSS server
remotely where more bandwidth is available, then be sure and set your
Maximum bandwidth
settings conservatively in the Streaming Web Admin settings (ie. maybe
100kbit/s) and the
Maximum users to something like 3.
--
Billy Brown
On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 10:48 AM, Hector Facundo Arena wrote:
Hi All,
I wanted to have my own live radio program, so I downloaded
Quicktime Broadcaster and the Streaming Server. I have a 512k ADSL
connection, and 128k of upload bandwith. Is this enough?
Some people reports very bad transfer rates (rebufferings and so)...
and others hear me very well... I'm using the preset Modem - Music in
Broadcaster...
And the last one, is it possible to use iTunes clients? on the QTSS
page says so... but I cannot connect to my server. I get a "The server
cannot handle more request error"...
Well... enough for now... please help me, the QTSS help system is very
basic :)
