White Rose needs your help in testing something, Please?

[benburch]

Hi Folks!

In 30 minutes, The Guy James Show for today kicks off, and I have made some changes to the streaming server architecture that I really need some help testing.

We really need to load down said server, and I would like as many of you as possible to connect to the stream;

Listen links are;

http://www.whiterosesociety.org/GuyJames.pls

and

http://www.whiterosesociety.org/GuyJames.m3u

Now, you can connect at any time between now and when the show starts, and will hear silence until Guy's signal is on the line.

If you cannot listen to the whole show, please leave it connected with the volume down so that we can get as much traffic through the software stack as possible.

Thanks so much!

Y'all Rock!

-Ben Burch
White Rose Society Webmaster

[sojourner]

1. no problemo!

kick and rec so you can get needed traffic...

[RebelOne]

2. OK. Connected now.

[Richard Steele]

3. Ok Ben, streamin at my end. Good luck with the new server!

[Richard Steele]

9. 2:41 pm, EST; I hear ELVIS!

[Nickster]

4. Connected now. n/t

[Ivote]

7. Now Connected

Good luck Ben
And thanks for the streams. I sure use them when I'm Not able to listen live
:kick:

[spuddonna]

5. Connected! n/t

[Warpy]

6. Connected, but getting dead air

on the first link. Same thing happened on the second.

Bummer.

On edit: got sound about 15 minutes in. It's working!

[Ivote]

8. Silence Is Golden

silence only untill Guy is on the air is what ben said
:kick:

[benburch]

10. Guy is playing music now.

The fact that you got silence early on rather than no connection at all means that part of the test worked fine!

[AndyA]

11. Connected using first link - heard music at first, but just silence now.

Oops...hearing music again.

[gkhouston]

13. yeah, I thought my connection had died there for a minute, too.

I'm getting music, then silence while it buffers up something else, then more music... but every time the music comes back it's a different song. This is happening off the second link.

[gkhouston]

20. getting the same play-buffer-play behavior

off of the first link. I use MPlayer on a linux box and have a fast connection.

[Change has come]

12. connected n/t

[ThomWV]

14. Connected 3:00 PM Show Just Starting

Working just fine on the dot-pls file.

[never_get_over_it]

15. Listening to Guy now (eom)

[benburch]

16. Guy's thread is up.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1082961

Please K&R

[Viva_La_Revolution]

17. connected. nt

[CountAllVotes]

18. Guy ... you are coming in LOUD and CLEAR!

Best connection I've had to you EVER now Guy! :thumbsup: :D

:kick:

[longship]

19. Done, streaming to Ontario, California just fine.

:kick:ed

[Frustratedlady]

21. Wow! Speedy!

That loaded in a flash. I've never listed to him before, but will give him a try.

[madrchsod]

22. done

[Arkansas Granny]

23. Connect and coming in loud and clear.

[benburch]

24. Doing great so far!

Keep it coming!

[jdadd]

25. Working well for me

[spuddonna]

26. Ben's on! :)

Yay! Good job! :woohoo:
ETA: I cry in my Jamesons' whiskey... lol

[Nickster]

27. That's Ben talking now? Huh, who knew? :-)

[spuddonna]

28. Unless my brain misfired, that's what I heard! n/t

[Nickster]

29. I'm asking, never heard Ben or this show before. I'm usually on Air Americ

[spuddonna]

31. The show is Guy James, but Ben called in...

...just for clarification...

This is the first time I'm listening, too. I usually tune in AAR...

I'm really enjoying the show, and it was a real treat to hear benburch! :7

[AndyA]

30. Working great so far - no buffering.

I'm on a T1 connection, and it's doing just great! Nice to hear Ben Burch.

Looking forward to the Log Cabin Republicans topic...I've never understood their existence either.

[benburch]

32. I see those guys at the leather bars...

...they are the ones who never use condoms in the "back room".

[AndyA]

34. So they're as responsible in their private lives as they are

politically. Nice. I would expect nothing less from them. :eyes:

[Poiuyt]

33. Ben, I'm having some rebuffering problems

Maybe once every 15 minutes.

DSL connection, iTunes, Mac OS 10.4.6

[benburch]

35. OK. I'll check on it.

I've seen one buffer event here, too.

[AndyA]

36. Guy is really tearin' them up today!

Love it!