How much streaming audio can a broadband connection support?

"Broadband" is a broad term. How fast is your connection? And what bitrate are the data streams? My Comcast is (supposedly) 6MB, which should handle it with no problem. A 1MB connection may be pushing it.

connection speed / ( ( datastream bitrate 1 + datastream bitrate 2 + ... + datastream bitrate n ) * 1.1 ) < 1 means you're probably okay

 

Also, if there's any chance one or more of the TiVos may be connected (and listening) to the same stream simultaneously, you can download the Shoutcast Steramer Plugin and/or the standalone Shoutcast Server and fetch only one stream from the web over your broadband, and serve all the TiVos listening to it from the locally streamed one.

Added usefulness - you can 'DJ' over it, mix in microphone, other sources, fade into other streams/songs etc etc.

Out of curiosity, what are these TiVos going to used for?

 

No follow-up, eh?

I'd love to know how things worked out!

 

But you know about the camera in the red light and the 'eye' section of the TiVo, right?

I imagine this would be illegal (although potentially entertaining!) in a tanning saloon







JK - good luck! Thanks for the follow-up!