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Streaming radio to prevent drops....

  • 14-05-2010 7:39pm
    #1
    Dr. Nick
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    .....does it work?

    Well I see lots of different opinions, and no conclusion. This evening (friday - heavy traffic on three I assume) my connection dropped three times in 12 minutes. I opened a radio stream http://www.springsteenradio.com :D and all's been fine for the past hour.....watch this space.


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  • #2
    Dr. Nick
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    Ha! Connection dropped while I posted. Thanks again three. Now I'm back up to 2.34mbps with 81ms ping.

    Had to restart the dovado router and got connected again immediatly. I'm sure my bro-in-law next door is hi-jacking my connection.


  • #3
    watty
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    Satellite Receiver with 2,500 radio stations plugged into "iTrip" type gadget.
    Listen anywhere in house, garden on FM radio with several days battery life...

    Now if I could get it working to my car...


  • #4
    Dr. Nick
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    watty wrote: »
    Satellite Receiver with 2,500 radio stations plugged into "iTrip" type gadget.
    Listen anywhere in house, garden on FM radio with several days battery life...

    Now if I could get it working to my car...

    Not really what I was talking about Watty but please, do go on....


  • #5
    Dr. Nick
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  • #6
    watty
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    Dr. Nick wrote: »
    Not really what I was talking about Watty but please, do go on....

    I know. It's just that "streaming radio" and Mobile in same sentence makes you start to look for complete alternatives.

    I've used a non-3G mobile system that (a) Streams Radio perfectly (b) doesn't disconnect on tunnel etc, simply continues after pause while no signal.

    Sadly that doesn't help either. The problem is that 3G/HSPA is not native IP based, IP is an application layer to it, it's a dialup system and the session is lost when it disconnects. Native IP doesn't do this (stream via switch and Router and unplug ethernet cable between switch and router and plug it in again, and it simply continues where it left off, for ANY type Internet Traffic)

    LTE (in 5 to 8 years time in Ireland, this year already in other parts of Europe) is native IP, so a signal loss won't lose your session. However not sure what happens if a bunch of people with better signal try to connect.

    3G doesn't just disconnect due to loss of signal but deliberately kills sessions for a voice call or due to cell breathe of nearer people connecting.


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  • #7
    jor el
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    watty wrote: »
    3G doesn't just disconnect due to loss of signal but deliberately kills sessions for a voice call or due to cell breathe of nearer people connecting.

    Indeed, you just can't make a 3G connection stay connected. It could drop for any of a number of reasons, and some application constantly streaming will not keep it alive.

    I have radio streaming on mine during the day, and it will often drop several times in a 10 hour period. Sometimes it will even lose connectivity even though the software and modem both report it is still connected.


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