Jeff
Stop Staring!!!!!
I have been considering feeding the audio from my scanner over the net. I have done it before but am now a little behind the times as far as the best & cheapest (free is better) way to do it.
Previously I had fed through a Yahoo Groups Chat Room. It was free and very easy but I found that many users had a hard time getting things to work on their end. Plus Yahoo had a tendancy of booting people out of the chat room randomly and it did the same to my feed PC and if I were not around it would not automatically reconnect. So the feeds would be offline until I returned to the computer. After this I used TEAMSPEAK but that is generally a service whose servers have to be rented. I really am not trying to pay so others can listen to my scanners. I am a nice guy but not that nice.
I have about 20 scanners and 6 computers that I can play with but need a way to get the audio to the net. Ideally I would like a seaparate feed for 2-3 scanner simultaneously and some sort of live chat interface (voice and/or text) would be great.
I live in Lexington Park so can easily put up a feed from St. Marys as well as Calvert plus some other stuff like marine, aircraft, and such.
My main computer is a Dell XPS Gen 5 (Dual Processor w/ 4 gig of RAM. But I really was not trying to set this up as a server as I am on DSL and I doubt I would have the badwidth to handle feeding multiple audio streams to multiple users. Plus my 'puter skills are not savy enough to where I would feel comfortable allowing others into my PC network to listen.
Anyway, any advice toward this end would be most appreciated. Any offers of assistance when the time comes to set it up would be most welcome as well.
Previously I had fed through a Yahoo Groups Chat Room. It was free and very easy but I found that many users had a hard time getting things to work on their end. Plus Yahoo had a tendancy of booting people out of the chat room randomly and it did the same to my feed PC and if I were not around it would not automatically reconnect. So the feeds would be offline until I returned to the computer. After this I used TEAMSPEAK but that is generally a service whose servers have to be rented. I really am not trying to pay so others can listen to my scanners. I am a nice guy but not that nice.
I have about 20 scanners and 6 computers that I can play with but need a way to get the audio to the net. Ideally I would like a seaparate feed for 2-3 scanner simultaneously and some sort of live chat interface (voice and/or text) would be great.
I live in Lexington Park so can easily put up a feed from St. Marys as well as Calvert plus some other stuff like marine, aircraft, and such.
My main computer is a Dell XPS Gen 5 (Dual Processor w/ 4 gig of RAM. But I really was not trying to set this up as a server as I am on DSL and I doubt I would have the badwidth to handle feeding multiple audio streams to multiple users. Plus my 'puter skills are not savy enough to where I would feel comfortable allowing others into my PC network to listen.
Anyway, any advice toward this end would be most appreciated. Any offers of assistance when the time comes to set it up would be most welcome as well.
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