How many users watching live stream?

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Ok so if I get wowza media server on my PC how many people could watch a live stream from me at the same time smoothly?

My internet connection is around 50mb down and 10mb up.

The video would be streamed at about 1000kbs.

Thanks.

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The uplink is the bottleneck. The formula is throughput / bitrate: 10mbs / 1mbs = 10. But I would say 8 or 9, maybe 10.

Richard

3

A 1gbs nic is a good starting place for a streaming server. With a late model quad or dual quad cput, 4 - 8g ram, 64bit OS and 64bit Java, you can get about 800 1kbs streams with 1gbs nic

Richard

4

I meant 1mbs stream, i.e. 1000kbs

If you have a 10mbs bottleneck, that will be the limiting factor. You will get 10 1mbs streams at the most.

Richard

5

Right, if the machine Wowza is installed on has a 10mbs connection to internet, all your clients will be streaming through that point, which will only allow 10 1mbs streams at most.

Richard

6

Thanks for the reply mate.

So it’s not great on the local machine.

What would I have to do to get… lets say 100 people watching the stream?

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A 1gbs nic is a good starting place for a streaming server. With a late model quad or dual quad cput, 4 - 8g ram, 64bit OS and 64bit Java, you can get about 800 1kbs streams with 1gbs nic

Richard

Thanks for the information Richard!

Wouldnt a 1kbs stream be very bad quality?

Thanks again.

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Sorry to be asking all these questions but I’m very new to this.

So it’s all to do with my Internet connection. I cannot improve the number from 10 unless my upload speed is improved.

Correct?

Thanks again!