Broadcasting and mobile broadband

[51dtvuk]

I want to do some outside broadcasting i have a usb modem and i was wondering how can i work out what amout of data do i need to do an OB i have found http://www.planetstream.net/informat...alculator.html would i set the viewers to 1 as LS handels the area needed for each viewer or do i set it for max for my channel (currently unverified 50)


all help and advice is welcomed

[ruheed]

Originally Posted by 51dtvuk

I want to do some outside broadcasting i have a usb modem and i was wondering how can i work out what amout of data do i need to do an OB i have found http://www.planetstream.net/informat...alculator.html would i set the viewers to 1 as LS handels the area needed for each viewer or do i set it for max for my channel (currently unverified 50)


all help and advice is welcomed

51dtvuk,

Our servers are capable of handling unlimited concurrent viewers. All you need to make sure is that you have a minimum of 500 kbps dedicated upload bandwidth connection to our servers in New York.

[51dtvuk]

so if i wanted to calculate in advance what data i would need it would be 1 viewer by kbps by time of broadcasting so if i was transmitting 1 show a week over four weeks at 500 kbps and each show is an hour long i would need at least 1gb data plan also could i use a smaller bandwidth than the 500kbps if so would would the acceptable minimum i could use.

also a helpful note if you want people to use speedtest.net give them this link http://newyork.speedtest.net/index.php as it will test to a New York server instead of them hunting for it

thanks for you help