Podcast bandwidth 10 Gigs and Climbing

Posted by geeknews at 1:02 PM on October 12, 2004

One word of warning to those of you that are going to do Podcast make sure you have plenty of bandwidth. We will be reducing the bit rate on all future shows. We went over 10 gigs of traffic for our first Podcast. I obviously under estimated the total amount traffic level. I reserved a 100 gigs for this month but this was with the planning of doing 10-12 Podcast. I think with reducing the bit rate we can keep in that alloted amount.

I guess I need to figure out how to do Bitorrents. If are doing Podcast and are seeding Bitorrents I would like to talk to you on how you are doing that and if it is helping your bandwidth issues.

I also think we will setup a separate xml file specifically for Podcast subscriptions I think some of the downloads came from individuals that have rss aggreators that pull the enclosures by default

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6 Comments

From Allen Searls at 7:27 pm on October 12, 2004
About how many podcasters are there at this point?
From geeknik at 9:55 pm on October 12, 2004
DailyWireless has a nice podcasting how-to article:

http://dailywireless.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3135
From brendoman at 4:26 am on October 13, 2004
Have you tried using BitTorrent files? That’s how I deal with my bandwidth problem. iPodder supports Torrent files.
From Richard Giles blog at 8:05 am on October 13, 2004
Radio Killed The Internet Star.

Over the last few months there have been a few articles (one here another here) and concerns over RSS and the effec…
From The Podcast Bunker at 2:27 am on October 17, 2004
Podcast bandwidth

Podcast bandwidth 10 Gigs and Climbing One word of warning to those of you that are going to do Podcast make sure you have plenty of bandwidth.
From The Audioblogging Revolution at 7:19 am on October 31, 2004
Podcast bandwidth 10 Gigs and Climbing