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Originally Posted by Scott L.
I would even attempt a webcast of more than an extremely small audience with anything less than a T-1 connection.  |
A T1 is useless for a webcast. A typical webcast runs in the neighborhood of 500kbps. At that rate, a T1 could only support 3 viewers.
I've served the Midwest Regional webcast for the past few years from my personal server. The last 2 years we've come close to maxing out a 100Mbps connection with this setup. That's 67 T1 lines. Even a T3 (45Mbps) isn't enough to handle the demand for the more popular regionals.
Additionally, the serving bandwidth is basically the expensive part of the operation. If you're planning to use the bandwidth at the venue (most don't have enough for this BTW), then what value are you adding? Someone else is already ponying up for the expensive part with that setup.