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During the last one and a half months Pig Camera has clogged up the global internet network and this has of course raised questions and curiosity. Questions have mainly been about how the transmission system works, and if it is possible to have an image that is larger, sharper etc.
Marti from Kernel has drawn and explained how Pig Camera is brought to you schematically:
 

Arvi has just put up a post in the Looduskalender Forum on the same theme, with these English translations, that we borrowed from him – Thanks!

Within one and a half month our Estonian Pig Camera (or Forest Camera) has been viewed 2 million times, so the number of watchers was very quickly doubled. The huge amount of information that has to be sent out through the EENet server has forced us to halve the image resolution. But by this, twice as many can now watch at the same time. There would probably be even more watchers if the server capacity were increased. Basically this is only possible by adding another server, and that is not easy in the present financial situation. We would not like to cut down the image quality further, so sometimes it will simply be necessary to wait for a few moments and then try again to get on to the stream – out of 3000 viewers one or another will always get off ... At the present 700 Mbit/s about 3000 simultaneous watchers is the limit of the server’s capacity. This also answers why the image is not larger, or sharper – by that the volume of information to be transmitted would also grow appreciably.

Many have obviously noticed that during the last few days there have no longer been interruptions in the Pig Camera. The earlier problems were caused by a pirate user within the same mobile tower zone. Hopefully he has been definitely removed.

That the image on the screen freezes or is jerky has mostly not to do with the signal coming from the forest, but rather with the loads on your local networks – for myself I usually find in these cases that the children are watching the camera too in another room ... A 1Mbit/s rate does not really allow watching two streams at the same time!