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I'm not saying I agree with him, but I'm on a 15Mb down 2Mb up cable modem, and everyone's experience got a lot better once I got an OpenWRT-capable router and

I'm not saying I agree with him, but I'm on a 15Mb down 2Mb up cable modem, and everyone's experience got a lot better once I got an OpenWRT-capable router and turned on Smart Queue Management. I frequently have two Rokus streaming 1080p, two laptops on youtube and an old machine in the basement running torrents, plus my phones connected to a PBX hundreds of miles away, and no one complains that their videos hang or their phone calls stutter (that was the real problem before, poor-quality phone calls). I don't honestly understand how it works, but it's amazing[0]. I'm okay with the packet loss in that graph, because I think that's how traffic control does its job? [0]https://imgur.com/a/1vDAtyR https://imgur.com/a/1vDAtyR

sigmar 6y ago
rokus, youtube, and phone calls use very little upload. Try doing a couple zoom calls on 2 mbps upload and you'll have issues. A single HD group zoom session requires 3.0 mbps upload according to zoom https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-System-Requirements-for-PC-Mac-and-Linux https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-System-R...
crdotson 6y ago
Same here. I’m on 16/1.5 and I can run a couple of SD video streams outbound with an EdgeRouter and smart queueing. I would certainly love more upstream for uploading pictures, and uploading videos takes overnight, but we can have several people streaming down and at least a couple up.