Multicasting
I've not had the support from large ISPs to accomodate this.
The CH 39 UHF Television Radio Ham exercise runs at low cost.
Were trying to promote NASATV and encourage the public of all ages to get educated and have fun on the internet and internet ham radio.
NASATV has many web sites constantly informing the world wide public to gain access and learn something in their lives.These web sites are often transmitted via CH 39 UHF and hopefully promote and encourage people to become aware of the need to have internet comunications.Get connected and live again.
I see this as a win,win for all.
7kbps to 13kbps is not what broadband is about.The buffering is on and off constantly.
My Jetstart service has some what been reduced ( some services disabled,Load Balancing ,IP assend IP desend,Multicasting disabled etc ).
I have two Jetstart accounts with Telecom Xtra.
All I really need is a quality multicast connection at no less than 64kbps.I can't de-compress 28kbps well enough to an acceptable level,tv-out full screen etc.100Kbps is even better but too costly at present.300kbps flys and de-compresses well.Its very expensive and still stops and starts with no connection or 7kbps to 16kbps with no picture and audio breaking up.
Whats missing in customer contracts is the information disclosing what features (hardware or filters and services) are disabled or dis-allowed.A customer believes that they are purchasing full access to where they intend to connect.
No one will be able to hekp you there. There are several factors conspiring to stop you being able to recieve a multicast stream of NASATV: 1) The NASA TV multicast stream is ~1Mbps in size, so you would 15 or 16 jetstart connections. 2) The NASA TV multicast stream no longer appears in SDR advertisements, and doesn't appear to exist anymore. 3) I doublt you could easily build a DVMRP or PIM tunnel to load balance over n + 1 jetstart connections. I would suggest that you stick to the unicast stream: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/ Cheers. --- James Tyson Moebius Systems Ltd http://www.moebius.co.nz/ - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog