streaming troubles
 

Im having trouble streaming those radio stations through the winamp site, and im stuck on what could be wrong. i have a 56k modem and am choosing those 28.8 bitrate stations, it would take me say, 10 seconds while it downloads somthing then plays for maybe 20 seconds then stops while it has to download stuff again.

Im quite certain its not my ISP's fault, as my old PC can stream just fine (on its 33.6k modem). im able to download files elsewhere on the web at like, 4 or 5k per sec, pretty much the same as my older PC.

Are there some settings somewhere where i can alter how much bandwidth is used to stream this stuff?

You can buffer the streaming data so it won't skip that often. Go to Preferences (Ctrl+P)>Input MPEG Audio Decoder
Configure it.
Go to streaming and you can configure how you get your streaming data through your internet connection.

Sometimes the radio stations have broadcasting problems, which could be that it tries to reconnect to get a better speed, or there are a bunch of people connected to that station that it drops some connections.

thanks for that tip , but the problem still remains. it does seem to last twice as long before it needs to buffer again though. when i click on preferences, output/configure... it shows whats in the buffer , how many blocks i have (although im a little confused on that). all i notice is, the number of blocks (set to 8) suddenly drops to 0..and the buffer, instead of being 84/84 drops down to 0/84 then it needs to buffer again. i dont think its the radio stations fault. cause i asked someone i know, who has a 56k modem and winamp to try that same station..and it works fine for him.

Prefs (Ctrl+P) -> Plugins -> Input -> MPEG Audio Decoder (in_mp3.dll) -> config:
Streaming tab -> Increase the "streaming data buffer" value
Increase the two "streaming prebuffer" sliders.