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There is no way to avoid the delay, it is simply the time it takes for your computer to send the data, and then the user to receive it.

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As quoted on top of this the internet has always a delay ..

it don't means because its a digital signal that it arrives without a delay

Even speaking to eachother in real life arrives with a minimal delay ... its all part of scientific laws ... Remember Einstein - Theory of Relativity ?

 

Operational :

Concerning my own stream ... My TOTH (6 beeps) starts playing at the mainserver at xx:59:39 .. the first beep starts playing at the stream at xx:59:55 ... so that makes a delay of 16 seconds

Mainserver is located at Ostend (city at the Nordsea in Belgium) and is streaming to a streamprovider located into the North of The Netherlands or a distance in between equal to 300 km

Driving that distance would take about 2 hours 42 minutes

Walking that distance would take at least 2 days and 1 hour :P

So I guess 16 seconds is a good average delay for a stream :type:

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Yeah that's like our streams, with the free servers, I tested out the delay the other day and it varies between 20 seconds and 3 minutes....

 

20 seconds to a minute for the broadband stream and 1 to 3 minutes for the dialup stream....even though the internet is not censored for radio yet....it helps to have that delay in terms of keeping radio clean, which is what I truly believe in.clean radio is good radio....I hate listening to some of these internet stations that play all unedited music...it sickens me to be honest...

 

Now some rock music, it's fine, but that hip hop bullshit is for the birds with unedited, because every 5 seconds a foul word is spoken in those tracks...so in turn the delay is good because the later a listener hears that the less likely they are going to turn away from it soon, and not later...

 

Country radio for instance, you rarely hear a foul word in it, which allows for country stations to not need so much delay...

 

Wonderful how the net works isn't it?

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I'm confused when you are talking about censoring bad words from the delay on the internet. There is no way to censor the words already spoken over the internet, as far as I know about anyways. OR are you talking about something else completely.

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so that makes a delay of 16 seconds

 

Thats quite good. I am in the UK and if we stream to our server in London we get a delay of about 45 seconds. Its about 250 miles to the DC.

 

But if I stream to our EU server in Germany the delay goes down to about 25 second.. Thats got to be over 500 miles??

 

I don't understand it but once you work out the delay it is easy to work with it. Although I don't know how you could 'use' it....

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A friend of Me who's into the IT business told Me once that the maximum of pings can be max 15

I don't wonna get technical .. because I'm not an IT guy ... but it has something to do with the traffic that the signal makes across several connection points ...

If the value is lesser or equal than 15 its seen as a normal and fast connection .. what decrease the delay in between the sender and receiver

But if I stream to our EU server in Germany the delay goes down to about 25 second.. Thats got to be over 500 miles??

I ever traced an email who was send by a friend of Me, he is having the "same" broadband internetprovider as I do ..

and the result was "18" .. the connection is going even out of Europe across the USA and is coming back to Belgium

Notice : that we have both the same internetprovider and are living at a distance to eachother of nearly 150 km :doh:

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