How fast of a connection would you need...

[slag]

I have a 6 mb connection and I cannot stream video across it to my workplace, let alone play any games.

How fast of a connection would you need to be able to stream videos or anything else across it and not lag to hell and back?

I'm using RDP from my 6 mb connection at home to an oc3 connection here at work.

 

[Goosemaster]

what is your UPLOAD? I am pretty sure it is NOT 6mb upload, so I will proceed as such until your confirm or correct me.

This totally depends on the quality of the video. Assuming you have comcast or Cox or Verizon, your uplaod will be limited to 128kbps, 256kbps, or 384kbps.

THis results in a Kilobyte per second range of 16KBps - 48KBps.

When you encode your video , you must encoee it within the upload limits of transmission.

For example, stremaing a DVD-calliber clip will not work because it fluctuates between 3-8Mbps IIRC. However, with wma, your can get very nice quality out of 700kbps(divx) quality. Basically, you are looking at half of that.

 

[slag]

totally correct, I miffed the fact it is upload limited.

My upload is 608k. I have the 6mb/608k plan from sbc.

 

[RobCur]

608k is still puny imo. ADSL is an obsolete technology. But hell even if it can deliever 4mbps uploads like on cable, they'll going to limit it to as low as possible no matter what. i have 6mb/608k too and often my upload is more used up then my downloads. often 100-150kb/s, 64kb/s
you may think we have a kickass connection but its only a litle faster then the new expert pro 3200/416

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: RobCur
608k is still puny imo. ADSL is an obsolete technology. But hell even if it can deliever 4mbps uploads like on cable, they'll going to limit it to as low as possible no matter what. i have 6mb/608k too and often my upload is more used up then my downloads. often 100-150kb/s, 64kb/s
you may think we have a kickass connection but its only a litle faster then the new expert pro 3200/416

WTF man..stop insulting his damn connection. Worst you didn;t even answer his damn question:|

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: slag
totally correct, I miffed the fact it is upload limited.

My upload is 608k. I have the 6mb/608k plan from sbc.

Just transcode your video to something smaller but very close to 608kbps or 76KBps....just to take network congestion into account so you don;t have to deal with continuously stuttering and buffering video.

 

[Phoenix86]

LMAO, insulting a connection, hehe.

OK, let me ask you this, before you get into bandwidth questions. Does lag matter in the game.

Yes=screwed, play again.

No=why are you asking, it's working, just not fast right?

You will have a hard time pushing any amount of data from server-homePC-work-homePC-server w/o lag.

Then there is the amount of data, and bandwidth.

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: RobCur
608k is still puny imo. ADSL is an obsolete technology. But hell even if it can deliever 4mbps uploads like on cable, they'll going to limit it to as low as possible no matter what. i have 6mb/608k too and often my upload is more used up then my downloads. often 100-150kb/s, 64kb/s
you may think we have a kickass connection but its only a litle faster then the new expert pro 3200/416

lol 6megs/600kbit is fast for a home connection. that yields about 650k/sec download and 70k/sec upload. its not good for serving, but its a fast home connection.

 

[BaboonGuy]

Originally posted by: DaiShan

Originally posted by: RobCur
608k is still puny imo. ADSL is an obsolete technology. But hell even if it can deliever 4mbps uploads like on cable, they'll going to limit it to as low as possible no matter what. i have 6mb/608k too and often my upload is more used up then my downloads. often 100-150kb/s, 64kb/s
you may think we have a kickass connection but its only a litle faster then the new expert pro 3200/416

lol 6megs/600kbit is fast for a home connection. that yields about 650k/sec download and 70k/sec upload. its not good for serving, but its a fast home connection.

faster than my comcast

 

[lobadobadingdong]

aside from payin $450 a month for a ds1 (or $3000 a month for a ds3)that's the fastest I'll see around my area for home usage for upload speeds. you can stream video at 56k, but you have to keep the vert by horiz pixel count low.

and.....are you talking about remoting into your machine to play online games while streaming the video over the net to your work computer?

 

[Gunbuster]

RDP as in Remote Desktop? why are you trying to watch video over remote desktop?

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdongand.....are you talking about remoting into your machine to play online games while streaming the video over the net to your work computer?

Of course he is, LOL. Why else would you want to stream a game to another machine, just play the game from the gaming machine.

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: Gunbuster
RDP as in Remote Desktop? why are you trying to watch video over remote desktop?

because work blocks many sites that I want to see stuff on.

Thats all.

Work firewall blocks a lot of stuff, ebay, etc, so I RDP into my home box.

I cannot watch any video at all, even simple wmv or avi/mpeg movies through the connection. I'm talking silly minute long stuff that might make the off topic posts here that work blocks, not full length movies or anything

Streaming games was just an example, I dont have the time, let alone the bandwidth to do something like that. I was just using it as an example. The main focus of this post was to see why streaming mpegs or avis stutter so darn much when viewed from my work computer on my home computer.

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: Gunbuster
RDP as in Remote Desktop? why are you trying to watch video over remote desktop?

because work blocks many sites that I want to see stuff on.

Thats all.

Work firewall blocks a lot of stuff, ebay, etc, so I RDP into my home box.

I cannot watch any video at all, even simple wmv or avi/mpeg movies through the connection. I'm talking silly minute long stuff that might make the off topic posts here that work blocks, not full length movies or anything

Streaming games was just an example, I dont have the time, let alone the bandwidth to do something like that. I was just using it as an example. The main focus of this post was to see why streaming mpegs or avis stutter so darn much when viewed from my work computer on my home computer.

Streaming video and a game will take the same bandwidth over an RDP connection. If you don't have the bandwidth for one, you don't have it for the other. If you really-really want to get around that, you could download the vids to your home PC, and transfer the file to your work PC.

 

[Gunbuster]

AFAIK video over RDP gets decompressed on the host, played, recompressed (badly) on the fly and sent to the client.

So I would guess it uses more bandwidth.

I would fire you having a RDP stream open all day over a work connection. 😛

 

[MercenaryForHire]

How about you actually do some work before they start doing SMS caps of your desktop and fire your ass for dicking around on RDP all day?

- M4H

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: RobCur
608k is still puny imo. ADSL is an obsolete technology. But hell even if it can deliever 4mbps uploads like on cable, they'll going to limit it to as low as possible no matter what. i have 6mb/608k too and often my upload is more used up then my downloads. often 100-150kb/s, 64kb/s
you may think we have a kickass connection but its only a litle faster then the new expert pro 3200/416

i got news for you buddy, cable connections have had limited uploads for a long time now. yeah they COULD have 10Mb up/down (those were the days), but they limit both the up and the down.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: Gunbuster
RDP as in Remote Desktop? why are you trying to watch video over remote desktop?

because work blocks many sites that I want to see stuff on.

Thats all.

Work firewall blocks a lot of stuff, ebay, etc, so I RDP into my home box.

I cannot watch any video at all, even simple wmv or avi/mpeg movies through the connection. I'm talking silly minute long stuff that might make the off topic posts here that work blocks, not full length movies or anything

Streaming games was just an example, I dont have the time, let alone the bandwidth to do something like that. I was just using it as an example. The main focus of this post was to see why streaming mpegs or avis stutter so darn much when viewed from my work computer on my home computer.

Oh my are you misnformed as to what tools do what. RDP IS FOR ADMINISTRATION.

If you want to stream video, set up and ftp server, and sttream video transcoded @ less than 608kbps....


RDP IS NOT FOR STREAMING AUDIO OR VIDEO

 

[RobCur]

Originally posted by: DaiShan

Originally posted by: RobCur
608k is still puny imo. ADSL is an obsolete technology. But hell even if it can deliever 4mbps uploads like on cable, they'll going to limit it to as low as possible no matter what. i have 6mb/608k too and often my upload is more used up then my downloads. often 100-150kb/s, 64kb/s
you may think we have a kickass connection but its only a litle faster then the new expert pro 3200/416

lol 6megs/600kbit is fast for a home connection. that yields about 650k/sec download and 70k/sec upload. its not good for serving, but its a fast home connection.

correction 550-600kb/s, 60-64kb/s
i hate my upload 🙁 it stinks like being on ISDN x 4
give me my all, 950kbps then I would have nothing to complain.. you can cap me at 3000kbps or 1500kbps but I need my ups for streaming video!

 

[Allio]

Trying to watch streaming video over Remote Desktop or VNC won't work on a 100mb lan, let alone your internet connection. Try an ftp server like Goosemaster said, or something like VideoLan in a pinch...