Creating a Functional Network for a Radio Station?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday October 4, 2005 @09:30AM from the upgrades-on-a-tight-budget dept.

E-bot & Ro-bert asks: "I volunteer for my campus radio station and, as the only techy there, I've been asked to help design their new network. We're on a very fixed budget and we're working with win98 PCs. The network needs to provide the ability to simultaneously stream and transfer large files (uncompressed WAV data) w/o interruptions to the stream. I know their current idea of using a simple hub and connecting all the computers won't work, but I'm drawing a blank on what to suggest. The specifics: Two of 6 Win98 PCs need to have the ability to broadcast audio data from any source on the network. The other 4 of 6 computers must be able to transfer files on the network w/o taking too much bandwidth away from the streams. I'm thinking of QoS, but how should it be implemented? What does the slashdot community look for, and suggest, in making a high-bandwidth network?"

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Re:Uncompressed WAV data? by brohan · 2005-10-04 09:55 · Score: 0, Flamebait

1.411 Mbps is used in the transferring of streaming video. However, for the transfering of large files which would hog up all the bandwidth. The solution I'd suggest is NetLimiter.
Just limit the overall bandwidth of each computer to 1.6 mbps and all computers could actually be used in a 10mbit hub. And NetLimiter just installs quickly, on win98 even, without a fuss!