craigim;461944 Wrote: > Actually, it was happening while I was entering that post. I was > listening to Pandora, synchronizing (both downloading and uploading) a > large directory, and downloading a batch of podcasts (obviously trying > to do too much at once). Furthermore, the activities were taking place > on two different computers, so they were both demanding bandwidth and > Pandora couldn't keep up. It was pausing to rebuffer every 45 seconds > or so.
It would help to know if your problem is on the downstream or the upstream side. You probably already know this but streaming radio requires not only a fixed (usually 128K - small for a broadband link) amount of download bandwidth, but also a reliable upstream in order for packet acknowledgements to get back to the source. If you are triggering packet-shaping on your ISP's side, they may be punishing all your sessions in a ham-fisted way as you approach your limit. Also, what protocol are you using to sync? If it is opening multiple TCP connections then that is "unfair" to other sessions sharing the same pipe, so you may want to see if there's an option to limit the number of connections it uses. That would be getting more to the root of the problem, and if it works would be better than throttling. Normally TCP behaves well in situations like this. For example if you have a 1Mbps link then you should be able to have six or seven other bulk downloads going simultaneously before your radio is affected. However if you have extremely limited upload bandwidth then that could be a harder problem to deal with. > How do I find out what port Pandora is coming in on? If I'm streaming a > radio station and the port isn't specified, does that mean it's coming > in on port 80? I think so. The only problem there is differentiating pandora traffic from other HTTP bulk traffic which would be low priority. Can you do it by LAN-side IP address? -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68392 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
