Streaming Audio/Video Quote

• Enter the MAXIMUM number of streams you want supported:
  This is the maximum number of listeners you expect to have for your broadcast at any one time.
• Enter the AVERAGE number of streams you expect to serve:
  This is the average number of listeners during the ENTIRE time your broadcast is available, e.g. If you were a 24 hours news station, you might estimate only a few listeners during night hours(5), more during the day (50), and perhaps two one hour peaks in the morning and evening (100). While your MAXIMUM might be 100, your average might be 30 over an entire broadcast period.
• Enter the Average Bitrate Of Your Broadcast: Voice - Good Quality 28KBps Voice/Music - High Quality 56KBps Video - Low Quality 56KBps Video - Good Quality 256KBps Video - High Quality 512KBps Kbits/sec.
  The Helix server allows you to encode a broadcast a different rates and the actual download rate can also vary depending on the listeners connection to the Internet. You can have a clip encoded at a high rate, 128 KBps (128,000 Bits per second) -- if all your listeners are on a corporate high speed network, your average rate might also be 128 KBps. But if your target audience was people at home, and maybe 25% of those had cable modems, while the rest were dialup at 32KBps, your average rate might be only 56 KBps.
• Enter the number of days during a month when you wish to broadcast. 1 2 3 4 5 6 78 910 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
• Enter the average number of hours per day you want your streams active. Hours
  Depending on what you are doing, this may vary based on what day it is -- just give us an average and explain in the comments area which follows
• Please let us know the kind of broadcast (what type of event), and more information about your schedule and time, i.e. daily, weekly, weekends, etc ...
  
• Please enter the days and times of your broadcasts in the space below. Note, any later adjustments or changes in broadcasts schedules will result in a $20 administrative fee.