live at the bike....sweat me...then laugh at my rediculous bluffs

[Rick Nebiolo]

[ QUOTE ]
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?

[/ QUOTE ]

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

[Rick Nebiolo]

[ QUOTE ]
oops that was supposed to be attached to the lead post. Oh well, it's late.

[/ QUOTE ]

that's ok, i'm on my second martini [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Michael Davis]

FU

-Michael

[Kevmath]

In the last 10 minutes of last night's broadcast, after the 5 seat left and Juleet moved there, another guy took the 1 seat. It seemed that he got the release very late as he had it in his hand and decided he didn't want to be on the air and another person took the 1 seat for at least the last few minutes of the telecast. They do announce often that no cell phones or headphones are allowed at this particular table. This provided a mild form of controversy where the woman who was earlier in the 4 seat decided to step away from the table to use her phone to try and find out what someone in the 6 seat was having and they had a bit of a verbal tussle there.

Kevin...

[Rick Nebiolo]

[ QUOTE ]
This provided a mild form of controversy where the woman who was earlier in the 4 seat decided to step away from the table to use her phone to try and find out what someone in the 6 seat was having and they had a bit of a verbal tussle there.

[/ QUOTE ]

I'll look into this since I might know who seat four was.

~ Rick

[Rick Nebiolo]

[ QUOTE ]
FU

[/ QUOTE ]

Florida University?

~ Rick