[grc] STL Bandwidth

[Eugene Beer]

Keeeth and GRC,

 

We use an old-fashioned telco DSL with no VPN to get our studio signal to
our transmitter (128 Kbps stream).  The DSL bandwidth is a very reliable and
steady 2 Mbps download and 300 Kbps upload.  The slow upload speed does
degrade graphic performance of Windows Remote Desktop which we use fairly
often, but it's bearable.   Our transmitter site is not at a "home
residence,"  so the one cable company that serves that area would require a
"business" account at more than twice the DSL cost.

 

Years ago we used an ISP providing 16 Mbps-rated cable service, but during
high neighborhood usage times (4 pm weekdays, when kids got home from
school), we would get break-ups and buffering delays.

 

We used to pay extra for a static IP, but now use a dynamic one.  Its
address has only changed once during the past year when we rebooted the DSL
modem, so it's not that big a concern since we can quickly remap the new IP
to the DNS domain that we have control of (xxx.wgrn.org).

 

Eugene Beer

Chief Engr, WCRS-LP and WGRN-LP

Columbus, OH