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<blockquote data-quote="Droberts" data-source="post: 2074487" data-attributes="member: 13839"><p>sounds like you could greatly benefit from some QoS configuration on your home router. if you're interested in taking steps toward that direction send me a pm & we can go from there.</p><p></p><p>i live out in the woods & make due with a 3.0Mbps advertised (2.6Mbps actual) dsl line. the wife streams netflix in the living room using a Roku on the tv while i game & stream additional netflix on a pc in my office. perfect performance all around on a trickle of bandwidth from my provider. if left unrestrained movie streaming services will attempt to reach the maximum quality available from the bandwidth available, regardless of whether or not the uplink is already congested or not. </p><p></p><p>QoS(quality of service) settings within a router can manipulate traffic based on their source, mac address, application type, destination, on and on and on.</p><p></p><p>i have all traffic destined for netflix's subnets rate limited to 1Mbps and all traffic for my applications(games) given maximum forwarding priority. this means that with two consistently streaming netflix devices i will never reach the point where my uplink is congested & packets will rarely, if ever, be dropped. this results in flawless streaming at an acceptable level of visual quality. that is much better than allowing the streaming apps to be unrestricted; flooding the line & loosing your connection to your streaming source from high rates of packet loss while effectively killing all other forms of internet access in the house(games, web browsing).</p><p>no matter how congested my uplink gets packets from my applications are immediately bumped to the front of the forwarding que & never has to face being dropped due to the forwarding buffer being full & in an overflow state.</p><p></p><p>long story short - you can achieve very good streaming performance with very low amounts of bandwidth.</p><p></p><p>being an experienced network engineer has its perks, i can help if you're willing to spend the time diagnosing & making config changes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Droberts, post: 2074487, member: 13839"] sounds like you could greatly benefit from some QoS configuration on your home router. if you're interested in taking steps toward that direction send me a pm & we can go from there. i live out in the woods & make due with a 3.0Mbps advertised (2.6Mbps actual) dsl line. the wife streams netflix in the living room using a Roku on the tv while i game & stream additional netflix on a pc in my office. perfect performance all around on a trickle of bandwidth from my provider. if left unrestrained movie streaming services will attempt to reach the maximum quality available from the bandwidth available, regardless of whether or not the uplink is already congested or not. QoS(quality of service) settings within a router can manipulate traffic based on their source, mac address, application type, destination, on and on and on. i have all traffic destined for netflix's subnets rate limited to 1Mbps and all traffic for my applications(games) given maximum forwarding priority. this means that with two consistently streaming netflix devices i will never reach the point where my uplink is congested & packets will rarely, if ever, be dropped. this results in flawless streaming at an acceptable level of visual quality. that is much better than allowing the streaming apps to be unrestricted; flooding the line & loosing your connection to your streaming source from high rates of packet loss while effectively killing all other forms of internet access in the house(games, web browsing). no matter how congested my uplink gets packets from my applications are immediately bumped to the front of the forwarding que & never has to face being dropped due to the forwarding buffer being full & in an overflow state. long story short - you can achieve very good streaming performance with very low amounts of bandwidth. being an experienced network engineer has its perks, i can help if you're willing to spend the time diagnosing & making config changes. [/QUOTE]
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