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Originally posted by Avian
The reality of the situation with us is this:
If AM adds 50 listener slots, people would fill those listener slots, and we'd bein the same position we're in now with the station being full.
If we added 100 listener slots, people would fill those listener slots, and we'd bein the same position we're in now with the station being full.
You get the idea. Because we're on Itunes, we would fill up as many listener slots as we woud provide.
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That's understood. However, more listeners might lend to more money. Not likely enough to maintain perpetual growth but maybe enough for an occasional growth spurt.
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Originally posted by Avian
Going to 80k would increase costs a lot. Adding a few more slots, depending on how much might be feasible because it wouldn't cost as much, but would add a monthly cost burden to Jim. It just creeps up and up and up.
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I think 56K slots are fine.
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Originally posted by Avian
What woud REALLY help is for people to donate _some_ bandwidth. The shoutcast application takes up almost no CPU or memory - if anyone has a machine on a T1, and could spare, say 25 56k slots, then that would help. And if we could work out a deal with a few people like that, it would really add up to make a difference. A good amount of internet radio stations work on this model. We just need to put the word out.
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Well, I have a T1 which is being donated for the web site as well as server for the web server.
However, a T1 (DS1) is the equivalent of 24 64K bidirectional channels. 25 slots would quickly saturate a T1.
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