May 16 2007

Help Akamai Fix Their Webmaster Radio Feeds

By Jeremy Schoemaker 17 comments

Since switching over to Akamai last fall many users have emailed me saying they can’t listen to the live stream on webmasterradio.fm. Whenever it was brought up in the chat room everyone was told Akamai was busy working to find the solution and it would be coming soon.

Well its been over 6 months now and I had lost all hope but now evidently they have figured out it is on their provider Akamai and if you are one of the many users who can no longer listen to webmaster radio since they switched over to Akamai you can make a support ticket and help Akamai find out where the issue is.

The link is here

Seo said on May 16th, 2007 at 9:53 am

I know whats messed with the stream.

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Brian Mark said on May 16th, 2007 at 10:07 am

I lose the feed every day I listen. Podcasts download slowly. Overall, very frustrating considering what Akamai costs to use.

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dunice said on May 16th, 2007 at 10:22 am

I always heard good things about Akamai. Looks like they really screwed Webmasterradio

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johnson said on May 16th, 2007 at 10:24 am

I have not been able to listen to a live wmr broadcast for ATLEAST 4 months. I will never use this Akamai company for anything ever. I really miss WMR

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tueda said on May 16th, 2007 at 10:29 am

WOW that link is from January and its still not fixed….. ya ill be using akamai someday… not

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Shawn said on May 16th, 2007 at 11:28 am

Yeah, they need to fix their podcast download too - it’s currently missing when I tried to download yesterday’s Net Income show

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Link Snitch said on May 16th, 2007 at 11:39 am

I guess Akamai doesn’t consider WMR to be a big enough client to deal with their issues.

Does anyone know if this is only for WMR issue or for all their customers?

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Wealth Junkie said on May 16th, 2007 at 1:38 pm

Last year I used to listen to shows live all the time. But since last fall I have not been able to listen to Shoemoney or SEO Rockstars live. I’ve tried to catch the podcasts, but I haven’t even been able to download Shoemoney’s show via iTunes since April 3 or so.

I don’t know what the deal is but it has been a bit of a bummer.. it was good stuff. They lost at least one loyal listener due to technical issues.

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Wealth Junkie said on May 16th, 2007 at 1:39 pm

I’ve also asked about it in the Webmasterradio IRC chat room - a BUNCH of times - but nobody ever responds to me. Ever. Its kind of weird. So I’ve stopped asking. And I don’t bother trying to catch the live shows anymore..

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CPA Affiliates said on May 16th, 2007 at 7:04 pm

due to the issue i just get the recorded shows… no worry of streaming issues there just sometimes slow download.

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Neil said on May 16th, 2007 at 8:43 pm

I just learned today from Neil Patel that there was a webmaster radio. I tried to PM him and I guess he was doing the show. I am going to check it out.

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Ken Savage said on May 16th, 2007 at 11:39 pm

people you are using WMP, right?

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Neil said on May 17th, 2007 at 1:05 pm

listening…today… seems to work fine for me.

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coopreme said on May 18th, 2007 at 5:41 pm

they are terribly slow.

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dillsmack said on May 16th, 2007 at 10:36 am

If webmasterradio would stop streaming in Windows Media, the problem would be solved.

It’s not Akamai, its webmaster-we’refuckingamateurs-radio.

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dillsmack said on May 16th, 2007 at 11:56 am

Yeah I heard that iTunes streaming hasn’t worked in 6 months either…

Oh wait. It works fine. Its not Akamai’s problem.

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http://mike.empuria.myopenid.com/ said on May 16th, 2007 at 1:38 pm

I’ve been looking for somewhere to ask this question for the last two weeks. I haven’t had any feeds from WMR for ages except one GoodKarma and two Daily SearchCasts. I was thinking that everyone else has gone on holiday! I use Juice as my podcast feed. (Jeremy - I’ve been downloading your show from your site so here’s one listener you haven’t lost).

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