You may also wish to check wether you residential ISP permits running a server on the connection anyway, around here most strictly forbid it, at least in the contracts, not sure how aggressively they enforce it. Also typically in the agreements is an up to bandwidth but no gaurantee of any actual bandwidth.
Nathaniel C. Steele Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM On 3/19/2012 2:27 PM, Fred Gleason wrote: > On Mar 19, 2012, at 14:01 01, James Harrison wrote: > >> If you're hosting this from a residential ISP then you should probably >> consider if it's really suitable for remotely running Rivendell over, >> particularly if you plan to move audio about. Even if you don't, >> MySQL/Rivendell prefers low-latency conditions and reliable connectivity (no >> to low packet loss etc). > Correct. In addition to the dynamic addressing issue already referenced, > using 'best effort' public Internet connectivity between RD hosts will be > likely to cause you problems due to dropped UDP packets. > > If provisioning a business-class network is not an option, then your best bet > may be to employ a TCP-based tunnel between the two systems across the > unreliable network. This will make overall latency somewhat worse, but will > at least solve the dynamic addressing and dropped packet problems. > > Cheers! > > > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | > | | Paravel Systems | > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | > | -- Cicero | > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
