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I have enjoyed hanging out with my buddies and do a few online broadcasts now and again. My oly problem is i have 448kbps upload, so having more than about 10 users is out of the question (24 with HE-AAC at 16 i believe).
So to fix this problem i have searched the itnernet for the best alternative, and well at first i had thought i had found it.... which brings me to Pico streamer.
http://www.vinz486.com/portal/index.php?ind=pico
"PS was born for a definite purpose: enable live transmission of adio/video data using as server a normal web hosting. All actual solutions needs a dedicaded machine, on which setup the server streaming software (Shoutcast, Windows Media Server, Icecast, etc..).

Instead, using a normal web server such as Apache, with Perl support as cgi, it's possible setup PS and get a real live streaming server.

This minimal requirement enable an huge number of people to radio streaming world: all entities such as students, private people and no-profit organizations or community, that often are without finacial founds, can now make their own personal radio.

In this way, consider PS as a cheap alternative to other big solutions, but not a substitue: a real commercial web radio, with thousand of listeners can't rely to PS, also beacuse the hosting service ISPs many times setup a limit to traffic used, which if overloaded can make account disabled or increase many times the hosting costs."
(taken from web page.)
So as you can see picostreamer is nice, and with certian web hosts nice.
But i have had many problems wtih it, seeing as i want a free alternative, so after having many problems and having it not work for me (i used canttouchthis,net for hosting in the end, just email the admin and he will set you up an account), i decided to move to:
Streamer p2p
http://www.streamerp2p.com/index.php
"Streamer is a p2p based Shoutcast/Icecast compatible streaming client/server application. That sounds like a mouthful but it's the most accurate way to describe it."
(taken from website)
So i have found that streamer seems to be the best one to use, just set up your DNS plug and go! easy as can be.
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