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[Kleetuss14]

Is there anyway to improve the performance of the Web Radio if your running it from behind a firewall?
From home the streamed radio works fine but at work it constantly freezes up or skips?
I have a 100mb connection to a 100mb Internet connection the only thing in between is a Cisco PIX firewall.

any ideas?

[John Gateley]

This could be anything, it may or may not be the firewall.

You probably do not have a 100mb connection to the internet. You may have 100mb locally, but internet connections are usually around 1mb. Who else is using the connection?  Get a sniffer and find out what traffic is going where, then you can narrow it down to the firewall or  elsewhere.

j

[Kleetuss14]

This isn't broadband it's at work, I'm an engineer I setup the 100mb internet pipe, I actually saved money by upgrading from our T3 45mb to this new fiber connection through a different vendor...


Unfortunately I don't have a sniffer at my disposal...have any reccomendations on free/shareware?

[John Gateley]

Now I'm jealous

We use ethereal (linux only, pain to set up, works great once it's set up).

Etherape works too (again, I think it's linux only).

j

[RemyJ]

You may want to go to dslreports.com and run the full suite of tests.   Even with 100mb/s, a high packet loss rate might be enough to cause the stream to drop.

Is the committed information rate you negotiated with the carrier actually the same as the line rate of the access?   I.E.  Your access line rate may be 100mb/sec but the max CIR may only be 10mb/sec (not that THAT shouldn't enough to stream Web Radio!).