Does StreamBy really re-stream your video?

[sab0276]

Does StreamBy really re-stream your video for you?

If there are 10 users watching your camera on StreamBy.com's site. How many connections are there to your Camera?

I was hoping that StreamBy would make 1 connection to my Camera and then re-stream that out to several concurrent users. A lot of posts on here make it sound like this is what happens. But I just saw something on StreamBy's site that makes me think otherwise.

http://www.streamby.com/start/

Originally Posted by StreamBy

PLEASE READ:
If you host your web camera with us, we strongly advice to limit access to the camera and set a password. This to avoid simultaneous connections and optimize performances of your bandwidth and stream. This is why you want to host your camera after all. You can then use the embed code to easily place your flash encoded live stream directly on a web site.
When embedding your camera stream into another web site, we strongly suggest to place each video in a different page, for the reason of optimizing bandwidth both for you and your viewers as well.

So how many simultaneous connections does StreamBy make? 1 or 10 in the case above?

-Scott

I have no idea. It is probably easier to ask their support to find out.

p.s. Let us know how it works.

[ddetra]

The connection created to the camera by StreamBy servers is only 1.
The reason why they request that you protect access to your camera is to avoid parallel direct connections by anyone else who might find the IP of your camera. This would consume your upload bandwidth and thus potentially reducing performances also on your StreamBy stream.