Tuesday am your time.

03:04:35  Jethro Tull - My Sunday Feeling
02:55:31 Frank Zappa - The Torture Never Stops

Listening in Oz.
Constant dropouts.
Like every second or so.
Can't be listened to, I'm afraid.
The Torture Never Stops.  

Hi Andrew,

I've checked the server logs and there hasn't been any connectivity issues at all.

Even though you're in Australia (and the ShoutCast servers are in London), this shouldn't cause any problems (a couple of listeners from New Zealand tuned-in around the time you mention). The ShoutCast servers have Public Peering agreements with Above.net, Level3, Teleglobe and MCI for the Far East and Australasia.

Obviously I would suggest performing the usual checks - were you downloading or browsing heavily whilst tuned-in ? That and if you do experience any buffering, try connecting to the 32 kbps AAC+ stream - there isn't a great deal of difference in audio quality between that and the 128 kbps MP3 stream.

In the meantime, I hope all is well again.

Hi Andrew,

Sorry to hear that you've experienced difficulty tuning-in again.

I've checked the server logs and there haven't been any connectivity issues from my end at all. Whilst you're obviously physically very far away from the ShoutCast servers (which are in London), as I've mentioned in this thread, the internet backbone which they are on is very well connected. As is the case in such things, the situations are very different depending on the hosting provider and their specific agreements with the various Global Transits out there.

Anyway, all I can really suggest is if you encounter this problem again is to tune into the 32 kbps AAC+ stream. I would be very surprised to hear of any problems connecting to this server as the bandwidth is so much lower than the 128 kbps stream and as such, you're far less likely to lose any data when connected. In saying this, as AAC+ is far superior at compression than MP3, the audio quality of both streams should be very similar.

Please let me know if you experience any further issues.

Darran

Hi again Andrew,

Sorry to hear that you've experienced issues with both the servers. Strange. I've checked with the ShoutCast server host in London and they have confirmed that there hasn't been any problems with the Australasia back-bone that S.A. is on.

If this occurs again, could you perform either a ping or a trace-route to streaming address ? If you're unsure as to how to do this, please feel free to send me a PM.

There are always several users from Australia or New Zealand tuned-in at any given time and nobody else has reported any issues.