Newbie question: Poor transmission quality

[Mark Glassberg-3]

I am using Icecast2 with Ezstream, sending a playlist of mp3s.  The signal
quality is fine over my home network; but out on the internet it is poor,
with frequent interruptions and losses of connection.

I would like to know which of the following two conditions, if any, can be
causing the problem.  First, I have a dsl internet service, with only 160k
upload capacity.  Second, my home network is connected to the dsl modem through
a router.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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[Thomas B. Ruecker-2]

Mark Glassberg schrieb:
> I am using Icecast2 with Ezstream, sending a playlist of mp3s.  The signal
> quality is fine over my home network; but out on the internet it is poor,
> with frequent interruptions and losses of connection.
>  
Sounds like network problems.

> I would like to know which of the following two conditions, if any, can be
> causing the problem.  First, I have a dsl internet service, with only 160k
> upload capacity.  Second, my home network is connected to the dsl modem through
> a router.
>  
OK. It IS network problems.
- Let me guess, some of the files are 320kbit/s and you don't reencode?
- do the math - not enough bandwidth -> fail
- Or if you reencode to a certain bitrate it probably is 128k or higher
- The intartubez are not quality guaranteed. The path from A to B might
not get all the bandwidth it needs. Or simply your upstream bandwidth is
chocked due to overselling by your ISP.
- You might be running other things that need upstream bandwidth. -
Torrenting/seeding the latest Ubuntu install cd?

Or a combination of all of the aforementioned.

> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
hth

Thomas

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[Mark Glassberg-3]

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 12:35:44PM +0000, Thomas B. Ruecker wrote:

> Sounds like network problems.
>
> OK. It IS network problems.
> - Let me guess, some of the files are 320kbit/s and you don't reencode?  
> - do the math - not enough bandwidth -> fail
> - Or if you reencode to a certain bitrate it probably is 128k or higher  
> - The intartubez are not quality guaranteed. The path from A to B might  
> not get all the bandwidth it needs. Or simply your upstream bandwidth is  
> chocked due to overselling by your ISP.
> - You might be running other things that need upstream bandwidth. -  
> Torrenting/seeding the latest Ubuntu install cd?
>
> Or a combination of all of the aforementioned.

Thanks for the quick reply.  Please bear with my newbie questions.  There are
no other programs requiring upstream bandwidth.  What is intartubez?  I don't
know about reencoding.  The files were made with iTunes on a Mac running OS 9.2.
It made mp3s from audio files.  How do I find the bitrate of those files?

Thanks in advance,
Mark
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[Mark Glassberg-3]

Problem solved.  My isp doesn't seem to be interfering.  I eliminated the
router, but that didn't help.  You were right, however, about reencoding.
Once I got madplay and lame and put a reencoding section from the examples
files in ezstream_mp3.xml, the problem disappeared.

Thanks,
Mark
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