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Hi Goeff, Thanks for your precisions. You wrote: "Internet connections are also expressed in bits, or kilobits, not Kilobytes"; then I guess a connection of 1Mb is also 1 megaBITS and NOT megaBYTES. There is something I don't understand; how are affording small radios that have up to 1000 concurrent listeners a 128Mb connection? Is there any magical solution I am not aware of?

...IIRC there was no Radio using Icecast that has more then 100 or 200 concurrent listeners. 2nd) One solution is sever housing or renting a ready server. Then you pay for the housing + Traffic exceeding the traffic included in the basic fee. As for Icecast2 I'd call radio stations that have an _average_ of more then 20 listeners medium and radio stations with more than 50 very successful. (note this implies max listeners of 50/300 and down to 5/10 at night) Just my 2cc Regards Thomas PS: For listener Stats look at shoutcast.com - there you'll note an e^(1/x) distribution of listener counts...