Johnny Vegas
@embarqhsd.net
| Upload degredation during Embarq Switchover, Streaming Audio
Some 5 years ago, I tried DSL in the Vegas area. For that time I enjoyed excellent service. Almost 2 years ago, I started doing live audio streaming on the internet. At best, my peak upload would be 256k continuous to the host server (I would often throttle that down even). Since Embarq took over, I now notice a continuous, periodical glitching every second or two, in my feed which translates to all my listeners. After doing Embarq's upload test, I see, (as my feed also indicates) a 'bursting' effect.
Based on my own experience, when you see a pattern like that, it usually involves someone introducing some kind of compression technology, be it hard or soft, in order to start cramming more stuff down a line. I've been down this same road before in the 90s when I worked in a recording studio and did live hard disk recording. If you didn't have a continuous DMA access the a drive, such as a maxtor (which used a 'bursting' protocol), you ended up with intermittent data.
Bursting-style technology is certain death to virtually any video or audio feeds unless the available bandwidth (be it a serial modem transmission, a parallel buss, or WHATEVER,) is so rediculously high that it's unnoticeable.
Bottom line is, I challenged Embarq on it, to no avail. Their recommendation was a business solution (side note - go look at their business section on their website... The Webmaster needs to get off their butt and finish it). Today, I'm going to look up the cable company and give them a shot.
For the record:
1. I'm 5 meg down 640k up.
2. I can literally throw a rock and hit the substation.. my distance is about 100 feet.
3. It worked fine right up until Embarq got a hold of it.
... And I have a feeling this is one of those things that their illustrious Engineers have set up for, sold somebody in upper management on, and I'm shyt outta luck.
Sorry Embarq, you just screwed the pooch on this one.
If anyone else out there has a similar problem... I feel your pain.
Regards,
Ticked of Vegan.
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