simck123 Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Has anyone here ever used satellite broadband for internet radio streaming? A colleague who lives in a rural area and cannot get fibre broadband would like to stream an internet radio station 24/7 and he wants to know if satellite broadband is a suitable option for radio streaming. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothJazz Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 not likely, inherently the trip up is delayed due to physics and the distance involved with the satellite. The round trip latency of a geostationary satellite communication's network is almost 20 times that of a terrestrial based network. http://5280jazz.com/nowplaying_image/5280jazz.png Rob Oyler 5280 Jazz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWorld Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Satellite internet is horrible. My parents actually have it. They pay $90 per month for a 1GB per month limit and 1Meg speed down. Not hardly broadband. Its so slow and never reliable, but it is their only option. ██ Stream101 | Affordable Media Solutions ██ Shared cPanel? Web Hosting | WordPress Hosting | Premium Stream Hosting ██ TOLL-FREE: (616) 277-7280 | 30 Day NO QUESTIONS Money-Back Guarantee ██ 100% Cogent Free Network | CloudLinux OS | Tier 1 Bandwidth | Grand Rapids, MI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brutish Sailor Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Satellite internet is horrible. My parents actually have it. They pay $90 per month for a 1GB per month limit and 1Meg speed down. Not hardly broadband. Its so slow and never reliable, but it is their only option. I could give you the experiences of sending the audio to Mt. Lagoona in San Diego on monument peek (to the FM transmitter) with a satillite. Its not a good experience. It actually was horrible and overpriced. They would be better off if a Cell phone service provider in the area offered signal and used a a hotspot modem. Something like this: http://www.amazon.com/T-Mobile-1661-Rocket-4G/dp/B005LXHJMS Just be ready to broadcast in 32kbps AAC+ and even then your going to go about 5 GB's. Need a bandwidth calculator to tell you how much your going to burn for sending the stream. but off the top of my head? Roughly 4-5 Gigabytes. KNSJ.org / 89.1 FM San Diego Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodoohippie Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 I feel your pain about not being able to get good Internet. However I got Satellite Internet due to the fact that here in Elizabeth City, NC Time Warner is absolutely horrible so bad that they had a geezer come to my house when I had constant Internet trouble. My HD TV broke and I was about to connect a TV that my Stepson gave me to use till I could get a new HDTV. This TV Was Never Connected To The System. The geezer came in my room with a meter and said "Oh that is your problem this TV is feeding voltage into our system. I Jumped up and Yelled "You need to go back to school and learn something about basic Radio communications before you embark upon a job installing cable TV and that he'd better have a supervisor come to my house." I'd had numerous issues with red necks working for them who had but one tooth in their heads. So I got Satellite Internet a few weeks ago in fact over 4 to be exact. I actually have better reception and am able to stream a 128K Mp3 signal and not have cut outs. I'm with Dish Net and paying $79 for 50 GB from 8AM-2AM/Mo and I also get another 50 GB 2AM-8AM/Mo. It was the only way to stay sane here in Elizabeth City, NC. Only thing is I have to limit my Live shows to about 4-5 hrs/day and the rest I have to use LiveWebDj or tether with mhy cellphone using PDANet. But before I had issues every time I went Live here in Elizabeth City, NC. This is a real nightmare here I've even moved to another house and still had the same issues till I went satellite (Dish Net). By the way when I pull the IP when I listen to my own station it comes up Hughes Net and in Texas. Also I insisted that I got the Gen 4 or higher modem or you'll get 3G Speeds. It does have a slight delay, but when streaming it does not matter. You can't really use Skype but I don't use it anyway and my listeners type in the chatroom or and I advise this they text or call my RockLine. Its sad that I had to do this and I even live right in town but here there is no other land line provider so there is no competition. Progressive Rock(Album Rock Deep Tracks),Classic Rock http://thelegacy.shorturl.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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