The URL you sent for RFE works good here from California USA.
Kirk
Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> I am a Russian translator and I listen to RFE (Radio Free Europe)
> Russian Service all the time. For some reason, I have been having a
> problem accessing it, as user and root, the past two days. No problem,
> basically, with
> other sites and I had no problem installing RealPlayerG2 for Linux. Yet
> both RFE and several listeners confirm that there is nothing wrong with
> the
> transmission itself. What could be wrong, please?
>
> Could you please check the following URL and let me know if you can
> access it:
>
> http://www.rferl.org/bd/ru/ru-realaudio.html
>
> Click on Listen to the right.
>
> I get a strange error message (Server Alert) telling me that either my
> bandwidth isn't fast enough or my CPU is not powerful enough. I have
> ADSL broadband and an AMd k6-2 400 Mhrtz compute with 128 megs of real
> RAM. So that couldn't be the problem. I have no problem accessing other
> sites, though I notice that they are slower than usual and often stop.
>
> My RealPlayer G2 is located at:
>
> /usr/local/RealPlayerG2/realplay
>
> [sher@adsl-77-232-172 sher]$ whereis RealPlayerG2
> RealPlayerG2: /usr/local/RealPlayerG2
> [sher@adsl-77-232-172 sher]$ su -
> Password:
> [root@adsl-77-232-172 /root]# whereis RealPlayerG2
> RealPlayerG2: /usr/local/RealPlayerG2
> [root@adsl-77-232-172 /root]# cd /usr/local/RealPlayerG2
> [root@adsl-77-232-172 RealPlayerG2]# ls
> Codecs Help Mailcap Plugins audiosig.rm
> Common LICENSE Mime.types README realplay
> [root@adsl-77-232-172 RealPlayerG2]#
>
> In Netscape, I made sure the suffixes (ra,ram,rm) were there as they
> should be and the application was handled by:
>
> /usr/local/RealPlayerG2/realplay %s
>
> By the way, what's the difference between adding %s and adding %u (as
> someone at www.searchlinux.com suggested)?
>
> I have written to RealPlayer and RFE but I don't know if they can help.
>
> I have also tried to change the transport to HTTP but that hasn't
> worked, either.
>
> Being a newbie, I personally do not understand the issues involved.
>
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated, to say the least.
>
> Benjamin
>
> Benjamin and Anna Sher
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sher's Russian Web
> http://www.websher.net
