Semi-official Pandora Played thread
Originally Posted by WestSideBilly,Jul 17 2008, 04:50 PM
Our network runs through a cache in a different city... a very peculiar cache. It has very high throughput, but insanely high ping times and a lot of packet loss. So streaming audio works great, but the way Pandora streams music, it gets ****ed up... I think it requests packets 64k or 128k at a time, rather than the whole file, so whenever the cache decides to take a dump, the song will stop playing.
The packet loss is a result of anything needing a lookup getting stuck in the vortex of 386 hell. Knock on wood, but it's working splendid today.






