Does this mean that Flashcom and Ameritech won't screw me quite so badly on my DSL connection? From what I've seen people here say, there's no way in hell I should be charged ~$100/month for a 160kb SDSL line. At least my installation (which took 3 months, thanks to Ameritech's continual inability to show up) and router were free.
Will we ever have some competition in the Cleveland area?
At WRUW-FM Cleveland, our campus/community station here, we're using an overclocked Celeron running Linux to encode our 24kpbs stream (using lame and a cheap sound card) as well as serve web and email.
Our higher-quality 56kpbs stream is generated real-time by a hardware MP3 encoder from Audioactive. The encoder is a really nice solution, because we can always crank up the bitrate later as the available bandwidth of the universe expands. Since we're non-commercial and Audioactive was feeling generous, they donated the encoder to us free of charge! With the encoder removed from the equation, our total cost was under $900.
We don't have a ton of people listening yet, but the response we've received so far has been very positive. If you have any questions, feel free to send email.
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Does this mean that Flashcom and Ameritech won't screw me quite so badly on my DSL connection? From what I've seen people here say, there's no way in hell I should be charged ~$100/month for a 160kb SDSL line. At least my installation (which took 3 months, thanks to Ameritech's continual inability to show up) and router were free.
Will we ever have some competition in the Cleveland area?
At WRUW-FM Cleveland, our campus/community station here, we're using an overclocked Celeron running Linux to encode our 24kpbs stream (using lame and a cheap sound card) as well as serve web and email.
Our higher-quality 56kpbs stream is generated real-time by a hardware MP3 encoder from Audioactive. The encoder is a really nice solution, because we can always crank up the bitrate later as the available bandwidth of the universe expands. Since we're non-commercial and Audioactive was feeling generous, they donated the encoder to us free of charge! With the encoder removed from the equation, our total cost was under $900.
We don't have a ton of people listening yet, but the response we've received so far has been very positive. If you have any questions, feel free to send email.