Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
Hello all,
I have a question and no proof that this is true. I listen to NPR daily
while working, on a computer that pretty much does nothing else. It is on
the same wireless network as my main computer I use for working. I have
Comcast broadband through a cable modem. On some days I have no problem at
all with the connection to NPR, which makes me believe that the reset is not
coming from the content provider. On other days I regularly get a
connection reset every hour or so. The timing on the days that I'm being
reset seems non random, but I have no stats to back that up. Today I have
been reset 3 times in 5 hours, but I don't remember being reset this morning
so probably 3 times in 3 hours. I would estimate that this happens about
once a week or once every two weeks. I find it difficult to believe that
streaming realPlayer is hitting any secret bandwidth level, but I could be
wrong.
Does anyone else have this issue, or has anyone looked whether or not ISP's
might be limiting content by sending resets to clients that are not P2P?
I also use Comcast. I occasionally use a Linksys WMLS11B as an Internet
radio appliance. My connection dies or get disrupted at random
intervals (order of an hour or less) while listening to several
stations. If I stop the stream on the Linksys, then start again, it
usually picks up without apparent problems. I haven't done any wire
sniffing, so I don't know whether it's due to traffic shaping, network
congestion (Comcast or elsewhere), or source problem. It seems worse at
presumed busy times of day.
Dave Kristol
