Re: Welcome to the future of radio

Gegroet,


DAB sounds worse than FM schreef:
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you peer-to-peer radio:
Streams: http://octoshape.com/play/play.asp
Plug-in: http://octoshape.com/plugin/get.asp

No linux, starts great.


and introducing the special guest stars, Good Audio Quality and Decent Bit
Rates. It's great to welcome you today Mr Audio Quality and Mr Bit Rates, we
thought you'd both retired from digital radio forever.

Concerning bitrates, it's strange that "studio Brussel" is noted as being 128 Kbps, as the highest bitrate they provide is 96 Kbps mp3.


Yer pays yer shitloads of money for a DAB radio / tuner and yer gets yer
dreadful audio quality. Or yer pays yer monthly broadband bill, ...

Remember this is a peer-to-peer network so that means that you will be streaming to other users as well. This means that traffic will count twice: one for the stream to you and a second time for the stream from you to another listener.

There are ISPs which limit the amount of upstream traffic to 10% of the total traffic; so -say you have a service that gives you 10 GB a month- 1 GB of outgoing traffic will also make your account shut down to a 64/64Kbps profile.

Even if you would use your connection for only this, at 128 Kbps, this would give about 17 hours of listening per month (actually less; as this does not take the over head of TCP and IP an account).
And that for 30 to 40 euro a month. (so that makes about 2 euro per hour of radio-listening).




<cue "jokes" about not being able to receive the Internet in your car -- give it time, give it time>

Talk to somebody who does frequency-planning for a mobile-phone operator or a wireless internet-provider and you'll hear a very different story.

In Brussels clearwire (a internet-provider using a wimax-like technology) had to stop accepting new customers (they now have about 5000 of them) as their network gets saturated and adding new customers could break the network for their existing customers).

Adding new antenna-sites turns out to be very difficult because of a lack of good buildings and all kind of building-permissions and other administrative stuff.
This is all to cover one single city with only fixed-mode reception and they have more frequencies for them then -say- a UMTS-operator who has to cover a complete country.


Also note that network-design is based a certain pattern of internet-usage and a certain overbooking-radio.

If that changes (e.g. as you a connection to put a internet-café behind it instead of normal residential users or people start to use applications that have a different traffic-pattern), this can completely screw up the network design and the economic foundation of your network. (that's why certain networks have this "10% upload" rule).



Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.
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