I'm back at voice-work again...

In 1978, I was lucky enough to land a part-time job at a radio station in Brampton, Ontario. As with many radio stations, staff announcers were often called-upon to record commercials and public service announcements.  For me this work is heaven!  I love interpreting the script, performing & editing the read and/or background and then putting the whole thing together.  Even after my broadcasting career, I wound up doing audio promotions and live announcing for various businesses - including a 17 year stint as 'the voice' of a growing restaurant chain!

Without boring you with the details, I did take a break from this type of work for a bit - and shouldn't have.

Well, thanks to a recent acquaintance of mine (Bev Standing, of www.bevstanding.ca), I got the 'bug' to try voice work again and it's coming along nicely.  I'm enjoying work from both 'pay to play' sites and from my own web site, www.jamieramage.ca (which is constantly being worked on - new demo's/samples coming SOON too!).

If you know of someone who could use a voiceover talent for an audio book, PSA, commercial, promotion, explainer, narration, telephone auto-attendant, or other, please send them on over to my site... I'll certainly appreciate it - and hopefully, be of service to them.

Thanks!

Jamie

www.jamieramage.ca

Yes, you CAN 'waste' internet!

I've had customers ask me why they need a better router... Well, a better router can make your home/office internet system work more efficiently.  Your home/office system is only as good as your weakest link!

Let's begin with a quick analogy of how stuff on the internet works...

Everything on the internet gets sent to you in little 'chunks' called, 'blocks', or 'packets', or whatever. It all comes to you just like a jigsaw puzzle, but with all of the pieces in order - and each one must be received by your device (computer/tablet/phone/TV/whatever) in order - and within milliseconds of being asked-for.

Here's how a string of these blocks might look as they are received... 1,2,333333,4,5555,6, etc...

Those blocks (#3 and #5) stuttered because your device didn't receive the individual block, as requested, in order and ON TIME.  Remember, we're talking about being received within 1,000ths of a second.  If your device didn't receive a block within an acceptable number of milliseconds, it is repeated - all the way from its original source, through the internet and to your device again - and again, until (a) you are kicked off for too many re-tries (stutters) of that same block, or (b) that block is accepted by your device within the allowed time.  This repeating block goes through your internet meter each time it's re-sent - wasting your internet and time.  Remember, unless you have an 'un-limited' package, every block counts!

It's really a lot like a car engine.  The piston and spark must 'meet' at the right time, or the gas isn't ignited efficiently and is therefore wasted.  Based on the explanation above - and this analogy, you see how easily a person can waste internet.  ...And, if enough people on a server/system are wasting internet in this fashion, the whole system gets bogged-down due to 're-tries' (much like rush-hour on a major highway... One slow car, slows us all down).  Yeah, I like my analogies...

If your router is inefficient, it can help cause more of the above-illustrated stutters.  This is why I always recommend a person get the best router they can afford.  Chances are, that router will help make the overall system more efficient.