Shoutcast affected by throttling? in Rogers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r14839491 en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:56:58 EDT Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:56:58 EDT Re: Shoutcast affected by throttling? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14845603 Slapnuts :
said by urbanguy See Profile :

Ok, got a chance this evening to play around with this again. And the problem is now solved! It's been fixed by cycling power on my router and my modem. So no throttling after all. Thanks for your replies.

[edit - thought I should note that my IP address did not change as a result of the power cycle]
A normal power cycle will not change your IP as the modem usually just re-grabs the same IP you already had, it will only possibly change if rogers made some changes on their end, if you install a new Network card, or if you leave the modem powered off overnight, in these cases the IP can change from my understanding based on previous discussions I have read here. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14845603 Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:15:10 EDT Re: Shoutcast affected by throttling? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14843729 urbanguy : Ok, got a chance this evening to play around with this again. And the problem is now solved! It's been fixed by cycling power on my router and my modem. So no throttling after all. Thanks for your replies.

[edit - thought I should note that my IP address did not change as a result of the power cycle]]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14843729 Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:30:38 EDT Re: Shoutcast affected by throttling? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14841816 anon : No problems streaming shoutcast to my computer or xbox here. However Bt is throttled.

Just thought i would add this to the conversation.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14841816 Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:40:33 EDT Re: Shoutcast affected by throttling? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14841265 accat13 : darn and here I thought I was someone special]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14841265 Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:05:01 EDT Re: Shoutcast affected by throttling? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14839783 sbrook : What qualifies you as a VIP is how much you're spending with Rogers companies. viz cable, wireless, internet In other words, it doesn't mean anything.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14839783 Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:26:17 EDT Re: Shoutcast affected by throttling? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14839708 urbanguy : Thanks, I take your point on the legality thing. So the issue wrt traffic shaping would be bandwidth or usage? Note that I'm using 128kbps streams, barely a blip on the bandwidth scale. And I'm downloading only 8GB - 12GB per month, which is pretty low usage. So if I'm being throttled, I'll be pretty ticked! Especially since I'm a Rogers VIP! ::uhh:]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14839708 Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:12:37 EDT Re: Shoutcast affected by throttling? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14839679 sbrook : It's quite possible.

And as said many times ... legality is NOT the issue wrt traffic shaping.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14839679 Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:08:04 EDT Shoutcast affected by throttling? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14839491 urbanguy : As of yesterday, listening to Shoutcast broadcasts via Winamp only works for about a minute and then dies. Tried listening as well via Windows Media Player and got the same result. Since listening to a Shoutcast broadcast is basically just receiving streaming mp3 files, is it possible that this type of traffic is being throttled? I haven't called Rogers yet. Note that I probably have a Shoutcast station tuned in for 7 or 8 hours a day (often leave it on all night just to have some classical music playing).

This is happening with any Shoutcast station and any other streaming radio station using mp3s I've tried.

[FWIW, also note that this activity is perfectly legal - it's internet radio.]]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14839491 Sat, 19 Nov 2005 10:30:05 EDT