Bandwidth Req. for HD Vid over VPN

[REC]

Hey there all =),

I'm going on a trip and will be spending a fair amount of time alone in my hotel room each day. I have a bunch of HD videos (720p) stored on my primary rig, which I stream to my Xbox over Gigabit on a day to day basis.

I'm entertaining the idea of setting my network up so I can VPN into it with my laptop, and stream the videos onto it. What kind of upload bandwidth would I need to have at my house to do this? Should I just keep to standard def videos for my trip, or do you think it'd be feasible to do 720p over a standard Cox Preferred connection?

I'll most likely be on Wireless G at the hotel, but my adapter is N 300 Mb/s so if I'm lucky they have an N access point and I get the higher connection speed.

Thoughts, concerns, comments?

Update: I have a Netgear WNR3500 v1 router and a WNDA3100 v1 wireless adapter, with 1.5 Mb/s upload at my house.

 

[Nothinman]

I can't imagine that would work too well. It would probably be simpler and more reliable to get a cheap, large external drive and fill it up to take with you.

 

[REC]

Well, I do have my enclosure; it'd definitely be easier to just take my media drive out and just do it through USB.

Thanks for the KISS solution XD

 

[dawks]

Well, I do have my enclosure; it'd definitely be easier to just take my media drive out and just do it through USB.

Thanks for the KISS solution XD

Yea thats probably the safest bet.

Getting N or G at the hotel really wont matter much since you're bottleneck will most likely be the 1.5 Mb upload at home. Thats 185kbytes/sec. You can check the videos and figure out their bitrate, and see how it compares to the upload speed. But also expect that chances are slim you'd even hit those speeds, what with cable upload being variable, and the internet in between, and the speed of the hotels internet connection being a factor as well. Often times a hotel might buy a 'slow' 10-15Mbit cable connection and share it among 100+ rooms.