Hello,
I currently run a small/regional Teamspeak Server which provides live scanner feeds from primarily Massachusetts, but periodically (and hopefully) from other New England states as well. I also have one part time feed from New Jersey (Ocean County).
The server currently runs out of my home. Comcast is my ISP. They provide me with very limited upload bandwidth (384k). I also run my "primary" feed from the house, which users can access via Winamp, WMP, Real Player, and any other compatible program. Between it and Teamspeak my upload bandwidth disappears in a hurry.
It is my thought to move the Teamspeak Server to a remote location, hosted by a third party company. This would cost about $18 a month for a 50 client server and would be paid for primarily by the periodic donations the website receives. I have found a company that is willing to host the server. This would provide a much more robust platform, allow me to increase the bandwidth of the feeds that are provided, and would take the load off of my dwindling upload bandwidth.
Teamspeak continues to be in my opinion out of the mainstream where scanner feeds are concerned. Despite the fact that the client software is easy to install, free, and relatively bug free from my experience, I'm surprised that more folks don't give it a try. My server sees varying amounts of use that tend to peak during large "in progess" events. The Democratic National Convention was one such example; the server was inundated and struggled to provide listeners with a good sounding feed. We relayed some of the post Katrina feeds as well, and again the server was jammed beyond practical use. Were the server in a remote location with adequate bandwidth this would not have been an issue.
The two "big" Teamspeak Servers available out there are of course Incident Brodcast and Scanner Buff Network. Both are fine servers and offer a great variety of feeds. It's my intention to continue to run my server and to keep it regional in nature. With that in mind, if I do make the move to a commercial server, is there anyone out there in the New England area that would be willing to provide full-time feeds from ME, NH, VT, RI, CT, or Western MA. Currently we have the Boston area, Cape Cod, and central MA very well covered by dedicated 24/7 feeds. I'm also interested in comments on the general interest in Teamspeak and thoughts on its performance with regards to providing scanner feeds.
The current server can be accessed at scanmassachusetts.no-ip.com:8767 if you have the Teamspeak client installed. It is not necessary to register to listen to the feeds. A view of current server status that shows active feeds, active clients, and provides a method of logging into the server can be found at http://scancapecod.us/xoops/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=12 .
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
I currently run a small/regional Teamspeak Server which provides live scanner feeds from primarily Massachusetts, but periodically (and hopefully) from other New England states as well. I also have one part time feed from New Jersey (Ocean County).
The server currently runs out of my home. Comcast is my ISP. They provide me with very limited upload bandwidth (384k). I also run my "primary" feed from the house, which users can access via Winamp, WMP, Real Player, and any other compatible program. Between it and Teamspeak my upload bandwidth disappears in a hurry.
It is my thought to move the Teamspeak Server to a remote location, hosted by a third party company. This would cost about $18 a month for a 50 client server and would be paid for primarily by the periodic donations the website receives. I have found a company that is willing to host the server. This would provide a much more robust platform, allow me to increase the bandwidth of the feeds that are provided, and would take the load off of my dwindling upload bandwidth.
Teamspeak continues to be in my opinion out of the mainstream where scanner feeds are concerned. Despite the fact that the client software is easy to install, free, and relatively bug free from my experience, I'm surprised that more folks don't give it a try. My server sees varying amounts of use that tend to peak during large "in progess" events. The Democratic National Convention was one such example; the server was inundated and struggled to provide listeners with a good sounding feed. We relayed some of the post Katrina feeds as well, and again the server was jammed beyond practical use. Were the server in a remote location with adequate bandwidth this would not have been an issue.
The two "big" Teamspeak Servers available out there are of course Incident Brodcast and Scanner Buff Network. Both are fine servers and offer a great variety of feeds. It's my intention to continue to run my server and to keep it regional in nature. With that in mind, if I do make the move to a commercial server, is there anyone out there in the New England area that would be willing to provide full-time feeds from ME, NH, VT, RI, CT, or Western MA. Currently we have the Boston area, Cape Cod, and central MA very well covered by dedicated 24/7 feeds. I'm also interested in comments on the general interest in Teamspeak and thoughts on its performance with regards to providing scanner feeds.
The current server can be accessed at scanmassachusetts.no-ip.com:8767 if you have the Teamspeak client installed. It is not necessary to register to listen to the feeds. A view of current server status that shows active feeds, active clients, and provides a method of logging into the server can be found at http://scancapecod.us/xoops/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=12 .
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
