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Hey there Jay knida stupid question but I was wondering is there a limit to how many people can listen onto a steamcast server. I know you can put as many as you want in the settings. But is there a limit to how many the server will do??
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Doesn't shoutcast actually only recognize 1,000 possible listeners from each server? It seems to me if you put in 20,000, your maximum on shoutcast will only show 1,000. You need to cluster other servers to get that number higher.
If I've got that straight, it says to me that one shouldn't expect to reasonably serve more than 1,000 listeners on a single server. Servers and their connections have certainly gotten faster over the years, so that number might be 'old fashioned'.
If I've got that straight, it says to me that one shouldn't expect to reasonably serve more than 1,000 listeners on a single server. Servers and their connections have certainly gotten faster over the years, so that number might be 'old fashioned'.
I'm left with wondering what a reasonable maximum bandwidth could be expected on a modern server. If you have a 1000 Mbps ethernet card, could one expect over 7,000 128kbps listeners tuning in without a problem? I certainly wouldn't expect it. I wonder if there's a site or forum that discusses this sort of thing.