Orb - Bandwidth??

[snoop244]

I can't get my head around how people can stream Orb to their ppc. I know it works perfectly well. What I don't fully understand is the bandwidth. Wouldn't a half-hour show, streaming at 200KB/s (Kb/s??) equal about 30MB of bandwidth? On my network, even with the "unlimited" plan, I would be shut down after about 5 half hour shows in a month.

Please help - I must have this wrong.

S.

[snoop244]

I can't get my head around how people can stream Orb to their ppc. I know it works perfectly well. What I don't fully understand is the bandwidth. Wouldn't a half-hour show, streaming at 200KB/s (Kb/s??) equal about 30MB of bandwidth? On my network, even with the "unlimited" plan, I would be shut down after about 5 half hour shows in a month.

Please help - I must have this wrong.

S.

[Jason Dunn]

No, that sounds about right. I think most people using Orb with their Pocket PCs are using it over WiFi. GPRS doesn't have enough bandwidth to do much of anything, though 1xRTT and EVDO would probably work out nicely.

[gunner6666]

Originally Posted by snoop244

What I don't fully understand is the bandwidth. Wouldn't a half-hour show, streaming at 200KB/s (Kb/s??) equal about 30MB of bandwidth?

it would but orb detects your download speed and adjusts the video/audio bitrate to fit.