Have you setup RealPlayer to use TCP exclusively? By default
Realplayer will sometimes attempt to use UDP for connections because
it does less handshaking and may therefore stream more effectively.
If you have any trouble between you and the site you are connecting
to the lack of handshaking can keep your connection from functioning
at all. Once Real told me to try out forcing my player to always use
TCP the reliability of my connections went up dramatically. Something
to try if you haven't already tried it.
Traci
"Werner E. Niebel" wrote:
>
> James,
>
> I agree with much of your accessment. OK here is the weird thing... When I
> upgraded to Mandrake 7.1 this only started happenning... Yesterday I tried to
> connect to Dr Dean Edel and then could not .. I quick rebooted and tried in
> Mandrake 7.0 (since I installed them on separte partitions) and I could reboot
> in 7.0... It seems to either be a Mandrake 7.1 problem or Netscape or
> something I had in configuration that got overwritten. Im trying to
> troubleshoot this but it only has a problem with real time streams... I can
> connect to businesstalkradio fine yet other sites I cant. Incidentally if I
> try to get Dr Dean archives it works fine.. Its only with some real time
> streams...
>
> Any additional advice you or anyone has would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Werner
>
> James Sparenberg wrote:
>
> > Werner,
> > There could be a couple of reasons that you can't connect and they
> > aren't your fault. Since you can connect to the one site that indicates
> > that your set up correctly (however this could be a bad assumption on my
> > part I really doubt if it is.)
> > 1. Rush's site is so slow or overloaded at the time you are trying to
> > connect that it's just taking forever for RPlayer to get the data it needs
> > and it's timing out or freezing.
> > 2. The webmaster at rushes site made a typo on the page and as a result
> > it can't connect correctly.
> > 3. Since realplayer for linux is in a state of perpetual beta testing it
> > could be unable to connect due to some weird Windoze only feature the
> > webmaster has enacted.
> > 4. The people at Real.com are liberals and they have added software to
> > block Rush. :)
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > James
> >
> > At 10:46 AM 6/22/00, you wrote:
> > >Hi there,
> > >
> > >I had real player working and dont know what is going on in 7.1. If I
> > >go to a site like
> > >
> > >www.businesstalkradio.net and try to listen it works fine with the
> > >streaming audio...When I go to something like
> > >
> > >www.rushlimbaugh.com
> > >
> > >it doesnt work... Real player executes and says "contacting" forever yet
> > >never gets the stream...Anyone out there know what the netscape file
> > >structure and plugins well enough to help me out diagnose what is
> > >wrong...
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >
> > >Werner
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Traci Collins, MA
Professor of Computer Education
Colorado Mountain College
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