While DJ'ing the other night, I experienced intermittent SAM encoder connection problems throughout my whole two-hour set. I always turn the stream off in SL and listen to the stream within SAM. Shortly after beginning my set, I began getting IM's that the music was skipping, stuttering, and sometimes stopping altogether. I checked and, sure enough, I was getting encoding connection errors. I've never experienced this before during any of my sets. I tried a number of troubleshooting efforts, such as restarting SAM, rebooting my computer, and resetting my modem and router; none of which corrected the problem. Needless to say, it was a very frustrating two hours. My question is how can I determine if the problem was caused by my Internet connection or my stream provider and what might I do to prevent this from occurring in the future? Thanks so much for any assistance you can provide.