Iceberg Radio

[JusMe]

I usually have internet radio playing for most of the day, and my absolute favourite is Iceberg Radio. Highly recommended if you're not familiar with it.

But in the last few days, it's been cutting in and out. That's been occasionally true of some other sites, too, so I'm trying to track down the source of the problem.

I know Iceberg did have some problems with power supply right after Sandy hit the US northeast, and their servers are in New York, but that seemed to have been resolved.

And other audio streaming sites have shown the similar problem of cutting in and out.

My speeds test out okay; I can browse and do email without a problem; and some torrent files have seemed to almost scream down.

Had the techies out today testing most of whatever they could, but no report from them.

I doubt the problem is in my house; techies might have found it locally and fixed it, but then again .....

I wonder if perhaps anyone else in Thailand using Iceberg Radio has had similar problems. That way we could try to trace where the problem originates, in order to fix it.

BTW - seems to be running fine right now, but I'd like to have greater confidence in it. Was working fine until last weekend, when Saturday morning was okay, but by the afternoon, it cut out; then worked okay until Sunday morning and then cut out for the afternoon again. Monday morning was incredibly erratic.

Any ideas? Anyone else having this kind of difficulty? With Iceberg, or other streaming audio sites?

[JusMe]

Spoke too soon - about twenty minutes after posting, lost the signal again.

Now, the only thing that seems to maintain a stream is a radio station on iTunes that comes in at 32 kbps.

Okay, but I want my Iceberg back!

[Pib]

I checked the site out....works OK for me....I'm on a True DOCSIS 14Mb plan in Bangkok.

[Gregory Morozov]

Works beautifully on TOT 6Mbps ADSL in Phuket. Thanks for the tip about this radio!

Sent from my Desire HD using Thaivisa Connect App

[worgeordie]

I could not get anything to play in the NEW Iceburg Radio,but did not sign in,but

reverted to OLD Iceburg Radio and it played fine. with crap TOT in CNX so if

it plays on my PC you should not be having a problem

Regards Worgeordie

[JusMe]

The problem was erratic, so here's hoping you keep the connection.

It's a fabulous internet radio channel, and being able to create your own playlists from different genres makes for great variation.

I've send an email query to the web guys there, so maybe they'll come up with an answer.

But if it's working for you, then at least the music is making its way into Thailand. The techies seemed to not find anything very local. That could mean just provincial? Too many variables.

I'll keep working at it, but have SkyFm running at the moment. Good, but not quite a full replacement.

[Pib]

But if it's working for you, then at least the music is making its way into Thailand. The techies seemed to not find anything very local. That could mean just provincial? Too many variables.

Yeap, probably just your ISP/local circuit issue.

[JusMe]

Maybe found the problem.

Techies spent over an hour yesterday afternoon checking everything locally.

I got onto the AccuRadio (Iceberg's mum) forum and asked about the problem. Got an answer reasonably quickly:

"We've recently fixed some database issues that may have been causing the problems you experienced."

I replied that I still had difficulty this morning, but right now it's playing fine. And here I was blaming TOT!

For once it seems it wasn't their fault. I'll keep trying and hope it gets permanently fixed. Sure do love my Iceberg.

[jcw]

Great site

[PETDCAT]

Great station, thanks

[samuijimmy]

I just tried this Iceberg Radio, .... (a few selections) ..... compared to http://www.di.fm/ or http://www.sky.fm/ (sister stations... if you do subscribe to one you get both)

I found the sound quality poor on Iceberg... (tinny)

Much richer sound on Sky or DI.... if you pay for premium it's better sound yet, but the free version not bad.... Playback always seems good too....

You just get a nice lady with English accent, asking you to up grade about once an hour!!! .... (bareable!!!) I have been using for over two years and find it great !!!

[Ken from Karon]

Connections are so erratic here. We are always slapping our head in despair of the local internet. I much prefer internet radio to the local stations. They are mostly just amateur music stations here. Busiest time of the year and 91.5 is just streaming the BBC and 89.5 morning program is playing music. 90.5 has two Thai people reading nothing I want to hear in english. I want to like our local radio but streaming is the go. I have 3BB and Iceberg streams fine.

[BlackPuddingBertha]

Much richer sound on Sky or DI.... if you pay for premium it's better sound yet, but the free version not bad.... Playback always seems good too....

I'm a Sky.fm subscriber (not exactly ruinous at USD1/week) and I find it to be very good.

[Chicog]

Try Shoutcast.

Also, if you know the server IP, open a command prompt and do a "PING nnn.nnn.nn.nnn -t" and watch it for a while. If you see the ping response fluctuating at around the same time it's cutting out, then the chances are it's an interwebnet issue that's out of your hands.

[canuckamuck]

Rockin to Iceberg right now, Thanks for the link