[BC] Stream's up

[Dana Puopolo]

I do North American customer support for Barix. We have a booth at the NAB
show in Las Vegas. Last year I set up a demo stream that was sent from my
house in Los Angeles in our booth. It was well received, because people could
actually hear the quality of our product. This year we will do the same thing.
Last night I was doing testing of a customer's system. He could not hear any
audio from his Instreamer so I set an Instreamer  up here, which he could
receive. Turns out that he was plugging a 1/8 inch headphone plug into an RCA
jack (yes, I get calls like this all the time) which doesn't pass audio very
well.

Since I had the unit out and streaming, it seemed like a good time to put up
the stream, so I did. I'm pushing the stream to a friend's ISP; he has set me
up with a ten listener Shoutcast server (ten of them actually-I could set up
another ten listeners if I had to).
The stream I am producing here in Los Angeles is *pushed* to his data center
in Toronto and then he re-distributes it from there-so you all are connected
to Toronto, ON.

Round trip latency from Toronto to L.A. is just under a minute.

By the way, he has GREAT Shoutcast prices-a client of mine has two 128 kbps
streams of 50 listeners each from him and pays $125.00 a month for both.
www.b2netsolutions.com
The cool thing about usng a Shoutcast provider is that because you are pushing
your stream to their static IP address, you don't need a static IP at your
location. In most cases this makes commercial Shoutcast serving cheaper then
the extra cost a static IP Internet would cost you. 
From: jgprods at bellsouth.net

Please explain to me what this is about.