I run a startup online radio station - www.interbeatsfm.net - and we are looking for bedroom DJ’s from all parts of the world.
Our main musical styles is house (most styles), drum & bass, disco, rare groove.
If you have a good internet connection (10mb+), not mic shy (speak the odd word here and there to give your show a live presents) and can mix, give me a shout for more info.
I did a bi-weekly live show for year on a 512k upload until I recently updated to a 5mb upload. We do broadcast at 192k though so that’s lessens the strain a little. Not chatting on facebook, good router and streaming server are really more important than having a 10mb upload.
Yeah it’s usually wireless connection that gets the dropouts the most. 10MB seems a little high for a requirement. I’ve never had any drops on my connection, but I’m usually around 13 or so (although I’ve had some lower times, Time Warner is like that occasionally). I know someone who has a pretty shitty connection though, and even he has a solid connection. He just makes sure he’s always connected with ethernet.
Are you using FME primarily? Wirecast? Something else?
Sure, we’re only broadcasting in 128 stereo - but I don’t get dropouts, and there is always at least 3 people on the connection while I’m playing, all in IRC chat, and two of them are doing other interweb stuff at the same time.
The biggest hint is: try and avoid using wireless to your router.
They’re probably attempting to broadcast using a wirelss connection - I used to have this problem, then I used a powerline adaptor to the router and all was good.
We have a little chat box on the homepage the live DJ’s use to talk to listeners. Plus if you’re on a mac up until recently you were updating track titles manually. Really I stay pretty busy especially if I’m running a bunch of sample slots or playing actual records and trying to find the next one.