I'm having trouble using the Pogoplug app on my iPhone to stream music from my device at home.

My home connection speed is 2mb down / 256k up. With a 256k upload, my max upload speed is somewhere around 35kb/s. The 3G on my iPhone is around 1 to 2mb. Most of my music is around 6 to 8mb per mp3 (they are a little high bitrate).

Wheneve I try and play an mp3 when I'm out, the song plays for about 1 second, then cuts off. It stays silent for a while (20 or more seconds), then either continues playing with stuttering, or doesn't play at all. I even get stuttering when I try to play lower bitrate (and thus, smaller) mp3s. Sometimes the app crashes during the silence.

Can anyone help with this please? Is there anyway I can stream the music at a lower bitrate to save bandwidth and perhaps speed it up and prevent stuttering (sort of like how YouTube works on the iPhone)?