iTunes streaming bandwidth size?

[livingfortoday]

I just had a quick question about streaming MP3's from a network hard drive onto my Powerbook. I've set my iTunes library on a network drive which is hooked up to a wireless router so that it can be shared by all my computers, and most of my MP3's are 192kbs (if that's important) - I was wondering how much bandwidth is consumed by streaming audio like that? Just curious if anyone has any firm numbers on that.

Thanks ahead of time!

 

[balamw]

Just curious if anyone has any firm numbers on that.

About 192 kbps for your case...

Streaming has very little overhead.

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[livingfortoday]

Thanks!

 

[ChrisA]

I just had a quick question about streaming MP3's from a network hard drive onto my Powerbook. I've set my iTunes library on a network drive which is hooked up to a wireless router so that it can be shared by all my computers, and most of my MP3's are 192kbs (if that's important) - I was wondering how much bandwidth is consumed by streaming audio like that? Just curious if anyone has any firm numbers on that.

Thanks ahead of time!

Seems like you've answerd your own question. About 200 Kbps. That is about 2% of a typical Ethernet cable's theoretical bandwidth or 4% of it's practical bandwidth.