I need help

I help run an online stream of my college radio station online.  We
get our internet from two different sources and every now and then
they switch them and it changes our ip address.  Is there any way to
set up windows media encoder to re-try getting a connection?  It
really sucks when we have people from France listening and it will
really suck when it goes down during Christmas break.  If you could
help I would like step by step details how to do this.  Thank you for
your time.

John

Hi - even a dynamic IP address should not expire when it is still inuse - if

Hi - even a dynamic IP address should not expire when it is still in
use - if it does, your internet provider  is faulty and you need to
resolve this with them.

It should only change when you restart the network router which would
acquire a new external IP address - otherwise, you could expect
services to be routinely disrupted even if just web browsing...

www.whatismyip.com can be used to determine the external IP address
reasonably reliably.

Are the users connecting directly to the encoder ?

Or are you connecting the users to a media server, and the media
server connects to the encoder (Pull:* stream type ?)

If the server connects to the encoder, reverse the sense and use Push
from the encoder to the server publishing point, so the server does not
have to know about the encoder IP address - use basic authentication
instead.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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djenforcer wrote:This could be achived by using a playlist on the server with

This could be achived by using a playlist on the server with both
sources listed. When one IP goes down it will roll over and connect to
the other..