music stream- server "bandwidth booster"

v3llr · 5 Aug 2013 at 15:26

Hi all,
I broadcast a live stream over the internet, however the amount of people that can connect is limited by my homes internet connection.
I was wondering if it would be possible for me to stream my audio to my server (with a 100MBit connection) and then people to connect to that rather than me.
This would allow more people to connect because they would all be connected to my server and only 1 connection (between me and my server) would be on my homes net connection.
Is this possible ? and is there any software out there to do this ?
Thanks in advance.
Sam

KIA · 5 Aug 2013 at 17:51

http://www.shoutcast.com/broadcast-tools

v3llr · 5 Aug 2013 at 21:34

Thats exactly what im looking for except i would like to be able to host it myself on my own server ( so i dont have to pay a certain amont per month).
Is there anything out there like this ?

KIA · 6 Aug 2013 at 14:23

v3llr said:
Thats exactly what im looking for except i would like to be able to host it myself on my own server ( so i dont have to pay a certain amont per month).

You don't have to rent anything from them. It supports Windows, Mac, Linux & FreeBSD.

ncjok · 10 Aug 2013 at 23:58

Consider icecast as a Linux friendly alternative.