Bee Wrote: > can somebody give the rule for knowing the maximum of concurent streams > with one server (Intel IMac for example) over a 100BT ethernet, with > mp3 files (256kbps) ... or other configurations ?
Well, at the top end: a 100Mbps LAN should give you about 50Mbps of usable throughput, so divide 50,000 by 256 to get 195 theoretical streams. Other bottle necks include the capacity of your hard disc to deliver bits (should be more than 50Mbps so not the limit) and the ability of your slimserver to keep up (which will probably be the limiting factor in practice - so depends on processor speed, system memory and other tasks running). This of course is assuming no transcoding on the server side. This is a long way of saying there is probably no magic formula which will tell you what you really want to know. Why not say how many you were thinking of, and see if anyone can offer evidence of matching that? There was also a thread a while ago on how many streams people had managed, and I seem to remember the answer was tens. HTH Ceejay -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24454 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
