The SBN Teamspeak server remains on-line and feeds LAPD, LASD, CHP covering Santa Barbara south to San Diego, NorCal, and more. But there have been significant changes recently.
From the beginning our TS server was a resource of our total site, the Scannerbuff Netowrk. SBN is a free natiowide incident alert service. But what we found happen was that users would sign up with the intent of receiving alerts only. If the alert was an agency covered on our stream they would quickly login for the duration and then log off without even a Hi, Good-Bye, Thanks! The same user also wouldn't send an alert for the benefit of others. Some users would camp on our TS server while they were asleep and for days at a time. We would boot them and they would keep coming back and ignore requests, plea's, and more.
This is troublesome because as the owner of the hosting company I use only premium, low latency bandwidth that costs me three times what the average web host provides. SBN also sits on two dedicated servers: one for SBN and one for TS. Our TS server can handle 1000's of listeners without a loss in quality. ALL at my expense.
To make a long story short, we closed the doors. Our TS server is now for participating members only. Participation can be in many forms: dispatchers, posters, chatters... but participating.
The above is the short story. I have been called every name in the book, and then some. But we're building a community. You are welcome to join us, but lurkers and listeners need not apply.
OUT OF MUTUAL RESPECT FOR THE OWNER OF THIS SITE, if you have comments or questions post them in our forums.
http://scannerbuff.net