Hi Traci,
I checked and realplayer was set on automatic, no UDP.
I changed it to use specific transports and looked at it and
it was already set to TCP only. I have left it there, instead
of auto.
Thanks,
Bambi
Traci Collins wrote:
> Have you setup RealPlayer to use TCP exclusively? By default
> Realplayer will sometimes attempt to use UDP for connections because
> it does less handshaking and may therefore stream more effectively.
> If you have any trouble between you and the site you are connecting
> to the lack of handshaking can keep your connection from functioning
> at all. Once Real told me to try out forcing my player to always use
> TCP the reliability of my connections went up dramatically. Something
> to try if you haven't already tried it.
>
> Traci
>
> "Werner E. Niebel" wrote:
> >
> > James,
> >
> > I agree with much of your accessment. OK here is the weird thing... When I
> > upgraded to Mandrake 7.1 this only started happenning... Yesterday I tried to
> > connect to Dr Dean Edel and then could not .. I quick rebooted and tried in
> > Mandrake 7.0 (since I installed them on separte partitions) and I could reboot
> > in 7.0... It seems to either be a Mandrake 7.1 problem or Netscape or
> > something I had in configuration that got overwritten. Im trying to
> > troubleshoot this but it only has a problem with real time streams... I can
> > connect to businesstalkradio fine yet other sites I cant. Incidentally if I
> > try to get Dr Dean archives it works fine.. Its only with some real time
> > streams...
> >
> > Any additional advice you or anyone has would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Werner
> >
> > James Sparenberg wrote:
> >
> > > Werner,
> > > There could be a couple of reasons that you can't connect and they
> > > aren't your fault. Since you can connect to the one site that indicates
> > > that your set up correctly (however this could be a bad assumption on my
> > > part I really doubt if it is.)
> > > 1. Rush's site is so slow or overloaded at the time you are trying to
> > > connect that it's just taking forever for RPlayer to get the data it needs
> > > and it's timing out or freezing.
> > > 2. The webmaster at rushes site made a typo on the page and as a result
> > > it can't connect correctly.
> > > 3. Since realplayer for linux is in a state of perpetual beta testing it
> > > could be unable to connect due to some weird Windoze only feature the
> > > webmaster has enacted.
> > > 4. The people at Real.com are liberals and they have added software to
> > > block Rush. :)
> > >
> > > Hope this helps.
> > >
> > > James
> > >
> > > At 10:46 AM 6/22/00, you wrote:
> > > >Hi there,
> > > >
> > > >I had real player working and dont know what is going on in 7.1. If I
> > > >go to a site like
> > > >
> > > >www.businesstalkradio.net and try to listen it works fine with the
> > > >streaming audio...When I go to something like
> > > >
> > > >www.rushlimbaugh.com
> > > >
> > > >it doesnt work... Real player executes and says "contacting" forever yet
> > > >never gets the stream...Anyone out there know what the netscape file
> > > >structure and plugins well enough to help me out diagnose what is
> > > >wrong...
> > > >
> > > >Thanks
> > > >
> > > >Werner
>
> --
> Traci Collins, MA
> Professor of Computer Education
> Colorado Mountain College
> http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
