Re: [DTXpress] OT: Bandwidth realities (was: Drum Beat with David Hall..... media problems)]
2004-04-15 by Ken
As far as I know you can't download them. When it worked, I
had to wait till the video loaded, then watch it from beginning to end. There
was no way to pause or skip any of it.
Ken
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----- Original Message -----From: Vernon GranerSent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 5:00 PMSubject: [DTXpress] OT: Bandwidth realities (was: Drum Beat with David Hall..... media problems)]Gary Menzel said:
> So - I'd say the DigEvent people are a bunch of losers!
FWIW:
Reality Check: As the owner of an ISP I can tell you that bandwidth is
the most expensive and least appreciated commodity we have. It can be
ridiculously expensive to provide streaming video and *someone* has to
pay the bill.
For example, a T1 line that costs ~500/month to lease is and is usually
plenty of bandwidth to serve 50-100 web sites while at the same time
providing email for thousands of user accounts, is *completely consumed*
by just FOUR people dloading digital video at "broadband" rate (384k).
Figure if you expect to be able to serve "broadband" rate video to 24
clients in parallel, it would take about SIX T1 lines, at $500/each is
about $3000 a month.
Oh yeah, if you only need those 24 parallel streams for 1 or 2 hours a
day (like 7-9pm), you STILL have to pay the 3 grand, even if the
bandwidth remains unused (unless you can get some sort of metered rate
and/or colocate a server at a major network hub). Anyway you look at it,
it's expensive! And, of course, the 25th person who logs in gets slow,
choppy or just plain *no* video and calls the site owner a "loser". :)
Could be whatever business model this guy had put together didn't pay the
bill so the ISP yanked the high-bandwidth feeds till he pays up... I've
had to do that on occasion... Not pretty, but its reality.. If someone
has these videos downloaded, they might be able to share them around
using BitTorrent or maybe Kazaa or some other distributed file download
utility.
Vern
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