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June 2, 2006
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Flashcom Guru Please Explain if this makes sense. Multiple users at one ip address getting rejected?

  • June 2, 2006
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Hi,
Today we had 17 students at a school, at a single ip address, attempt to connect to my flashcom server to listen to audio files. They had flashcom server not responding errors...and I am trying to figure out why.

The students at first could connect, but then they could not. They all started getting the not responding error. users at other locations were able to connect during this time. So what is the most likely cause?

This is what my tech support says:

It is most certainly possible that the flashcom server denyed access because every session was loading from the same IP address. Your Flashcom service can accpet 50 simultanious users and 256kbps output bandwidth. (this translates into 32 kilabytes). Essentially it does depend what they were all viewing at the same time as well. So long as each connection comes from a different IP address, you shouldn't run into this issue in the future. If you have any further questions regarding your (mt) Media Temple services, please feel free to contact us at any time.

So tell me: When they say: "It is most certainly possible that the flashcom server denyed access because every session was loading from the same IP address" Do you agree? Is there anyway to know if flashcom will do this? Is there anyway to know if it did do this? Is it possible to prevent this from happening to that class next time?

Help!! Please.
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    2 respuestas

    June 4, 2006
    What is the bitrate and/or sampling rate of your audio files?

    Let's assume your audio is encoded at 50kbps. Since you have 256kbps available, you can serve about 5 users before you run out of bandwidth (shared hosting bandwidth figures are cumulitive... not per user). you might be maxing your bandwidth allotment faster than the admin service can track it, and that mght cause your vHost to freeze.

    Shared hosting providers could be a little clearer in their terms. I don't know what good 50 connections is going to do if you only have 256kbps to work with.
    Hasan Otuome
    Participating Frequently
    June 2, 2006
    Sounds like a bottleneck. What were the conditions during successful connects and failed connects? (ie all accessing @ once, etc)...