Farming bandwidth with fake listeners?

[Mugophone]

Hi! I have a listener from Kansas, in the middle of a lake with two IP adress, and He "listen" my radio four days without stop, practicaly farming my all bandwidth. I do not believe, he listen my four hour content in the endless. I think it is some bandwidth farming fake listeners. It is possible? It is usual thing? Thanks'!

 

[BBMac]

unfortunately it'll highly likely be a stream ripper, they are incredibly hard to get rid of.

 

[Support]

You can block the IP.

If you are running a Shoutcast server have a read of this: https://www.internet-radio.com/community/threads/how-do-i-ban-ips-from-my-shoutcast-server.46/

 

[Mugophone]

Thank you for answering! I think it just hang on an opened tab and it is not something speculation. Anyway, in the future I will stop for one second the radio if I see something unusual hanging...

 

[DJD]

I have a 5 hour listening limit on trance fx to stop having my bandwidth wasted.