Standalone internet radio device chews bandwidth, all gone
Posted by testcrunch on 26th January 2007
If you used a standalone internet radio device, you know those ugly things you see adevertised, all day how much bandwidth would it use?
Haven’t a clue without some monitoring software. If you tried running it on 56k dial-up access I bet the sound would drop out, therefore its got to be using at least that much bandwidth per second. That works out at just over 200 mb per hour.
If you left it on for 10 hours a day for 20 days a month, then you’re going to be using about 40 gbyte per month which is probably more than the maximum bandwidth most capped tariffs allow.
And you haven’t even accounted for any web or email use. As for watching any streaming video, forget that as well as web and email in the last week of your billing cycle when you’re drawing towards you cap limit.
Why is there no decent radio client for Windows? Accessing radio stations in itunes or Windows Media Player is like using some kind of file manager. What we need is a client that’s dead easy to use and has the radio station icons or logo’s splattered about.
Quote of the day
‘Freesbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck’ George Carlin (1937-)
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »