Bandwidth requirements for an internet radio station?

[webfinesse]

Hello,

I have a customer of mine that is interested in having his own internet radio station, however I have not been able to find any information as to how much bandwidth a month one would need for say, 10 - 100 listeners.

Does anyone know how much bandwidth an internet radio station uses or know here I can find out?

[mixx941]

Hi.

Internet radio stations can take up a lot of bandwidth depending on the number of listeners and stream bitrate. For example, 10 listeners at 128kbps for a month is ~400GB (or ~1.4mbps concurrently) and 100 listeners at 128kbps for a month is ~4000GB (~14mbps concurrently). Here is a stream calculator that you can use to get a better idea about how much the particular stream bitrate and listeners would take in terms of concurrent bandwidth or monthly transfer:

radiotoolbox.com/online_tools/bandwidth.php

(Sorry, didn't have enough posts to paste the complete link)

Hope that helps.

-Mark

[BKotur]

I had a customer with around 70 listeners on their radio station. It used up around 2TB of bandwidth in one month. The stream was at 64Kbps if I remember correctly.