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In article , Sam Plusnet
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In article o.uk,
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:58:41 +0000 (UTC), Steve Firth wrote:

Why eat into your bandwidth allowance when there's a perfectly good FM
signal available?

Bandwidth allowance? Are you using the poor people's Internet?


Most mobile phones have a download limit... As some one has pointed out
if using a mobile make sure it doesn't drop across to 3G if it loses the
WiFi...

A 128kbps stream is roughly 60MBhr and will chomp through 1GB in around
16 hours. (If I've got the maths right...).


That's always been my objection to 'internet radio' - most ISPs have a
monthly useage limit.


We're on VM and I don't know if they do cap it anymore since we went to
the 30 meg speed but it does get hammered these days mainly with U tube
and iplayer...


If you could use a Freeview box to supply the feed instead...

Yep...
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Tony Sayer