Please help,l my server's acting up.
 

Hello there, i'm having a few issues with listeners at the moment. I've been running a station for about 10 months now and for the most part of that i was using Windows 98SE as an os. This seemed to work fine and i could hold a decent number of listeners... however more recently i had to upgrade to Windows 2000 due to 98 dying on me. Now when ppl try to listen to my shows, their players buffer for a long time...then they get about 5 seconds of transmission and then it goes back to rebuffering.

I've re-installed winamp, the sc server and the dsp plugin but there still seems to be something breaking up my signal. What am i doing wrong?

By the way, i'm still stuck using versions 1.8 of the dsp and 1.9 of the server... i noticed a post about shoutcast 3.0 dated from 2002 on shoutcast.com, does this or any other more recent version exist for download, and if so where can i get it?

Many many thanks for taking the time to read all this.

There is no such thing as shoutcast 3, for some reason there have been a few post about none existant versions of shoutcast. The latest versions of the DNAS and the DSP are available from the download section of shoutcast.com.

So are those really the newest versions of shoutcast?
1.8.2b of the dsp and v1.9 of sc serv?

This problem has been dogging me for about two months non-stop... i'm on a LAN connected to a 1MB Broadband line with only 2 other pcs on it, and the ports on our Dlink router (8000-8001) are open for the server... but the signal still gets broken up.

If anyone wants to maybe have a quick butchers at the stream and see what they think you can find it under Phluid FM in the shoutcast yp.

Danke Schone

DSP 1.82b, DNAS 1.92, please post a direct link to your stream.

ok, you'll have to bear with me if this is wrong, http://82.32.50.303:8000/listen.pls

nope sorry that doesn't work, go here http://www.radiotoolbox.com/online_tools/whereami.php to find your correct IP.

[hint] the numbers in ip addresses can be between 1 and 254 with 0 and 255 reserved for special functions. 303 can never be a valid part of an ip address.

sorry, that is exactly wrong. it's http://82.32.50.202:8000/listen.pls

WEll it is acting like it is on a very slow connection ru sure it is definatley not a conneciton related problem.

I'm starting to believe that it must be connection related, i think i've done just about everything i can with my pc and our router and i'm still having this sillyness.

The thing is it seemed to run fine between July and October of last year, then in November it started developing this problem.

This may sound a little dumb, but i can get onto the show from any of the other PC's on my LAN, and they all play fine, does this mean there's something going on between the Cable Modem and the outputs on the Router?

Additionally, does the URL on my connection settings make any sort of difference?

What you say sugest that the pc and the software are fine, you eithe have a faulty router/cm or a slow upstream speed on your connection.

I have a feeling the upstream speed is about 128 MBps. Does that mean i'm not able to run SHOuTcast efficiently?

with 128kbps you should be able to support two users at the 48kbps that the stream is currently running at.

ok, so should i switch down to 24kbps 22.050 khz then?

It's up to you it depends on how many users you want to support, try it see what you think, get feedback from listeners, post a link here see if it still rebuffers at the reduced bitrate. In short "suck it and see"