How to calculate bandwidth?

[tomperson]

HI!
I'm really interested in shoutcast, seems like an easy to set up solution for audio broadcasting. As far as I could understand, I can make a broadcast from a low speed network like, say, my home ADSL, upload it to a high bandwidth server, and the users connect to that server, right?

My budget is really low, and this is an experimental thing for me right now, but I may be able to get a "free" server. I'm not really sure If I can get 192kbps or 512kbps uplink on that server. I'd like to know how can I calculate how many users I could have with those connections. I guess the bitrate should be quite low in order to get a few more "connections"...right?

I'm currently reading the FAQs, I haven't found that info...Just in case

Please, let me know where can I find more info regarding this...

[dotme]

You want this thread...
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=211328

Also, test your own upstream speed at
http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=2

Best wishes

[tomperson]

Thanks guys!

[Amplex9]

Basicly just divide your Upload bandwidth by your (broadcasting) Bitrate and make sure you leave some overheads for other things to access the web on the same connection.

Dont hold your breath on Big numbers either unless you got an industrial connection, normal 256k upload will get about 10/24k streams at most
sometimes its best to pay for hosting services,
Stream Hosting is cheep enough though if you shop around.

[Wavestreaming]

The best tool in the world:

http://www.radiotoolbox.com/online_tools/bandwidth.php

[Nick@ss]

lots of tools http://www.radiotoolbox.com/online_tools/
and more to be added on here very soon
http://www.webcasteru.com/