[Rick Nebiolo]

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Rick - do you guys have problems with large amounts of traffic? Myself and a group of other 2+2ers tried to view the stream, but could not connect during the 400/800 game.

I suspected that you had too many connected users. Is that the case?

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Note that I'm not involved in the production so I wouldn't be able to provide you with an informed answer. From the other thread I learned we had a problem earlier Thursday evening (I didn't get home to watch it until about 8:00 pm - I had no problem but my DSL is fast). Let me know if you had a problem during the later period of the web-cast and I'll pass it on.

BTW, when I first heard of this project I expressed a high degree of skepticism - especially regarding whether it would be technically possible. After all, to watch a film clip of an upcoming blockbuster movie using something like Quicktime about half the data gets loaded before the video even starts playing. The remaining data is loaded as you watch the clip. Any webcam (e.g. traffic in London) I've seen is always choppy.

That said, I'm pretty impressed so far but obviously as the audience grows the bandwidth requirements increase proportionately. Web-casting isn't like a radio station - the radio signal doesn't care if there are a million radios tuned in or only a few. To the best of my understanding that's not true on the net.

Regards,

Rick