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Good morning Duane<br>
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1. Have you tested on an off day when little to no one is there using the wifi?<br>
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2. Which internet service are you using?<br>
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3. What device actually provides the wifi?<br>
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4. I use the wired wifi extender setup whenever possible back to your main wifi device.<br>
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5. Have you considered turning off guest access during video presentations?<br>
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There's more,<br>
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Yes. Brick or block walls, distance, the amount of users. Etc... Will all contribute to bandwidth usage
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 6, 2021 11:32:22 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Hidden-tech] Advice sought: Can passive WiFi use by a crowd's phones drain bandwidth...?</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Holiday greetings, Hidden Tech.
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<div>My church has been offering live streaming of its Sunday services via its YouTube channel.
<div>Hiccups in the video (and audio) stream are common. (And those hiccups show up when streaming the recorded version after-the-fact.)</div>
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<div>An iPhone in the sanctuary is doing the "capture" and is connected by WiFi to a cable modem/router in an adjoining room (outside the stone walls of the church).</div>
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<div>Some people place blame on those stone walls, but my speedcheck in an otherwise-empty sanctuary shows a pretty consistent ~25 Mbps up and down.</div>
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As a possible solution, a WiFi extender in the sanctuary, wired with CAT6 to the modem/router, has been tried with apparent success for small mid-week services, and we may start using it for the Sunday services.</div>
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<div><b>But here's my question: <br>
</b>Can passive WiFi use by a crowd's phones drain bandwidth and/or slow transmission speeds?<br>
Imagine a Sunday service with 100+ people in the space.<br>
Imagine that a majority have smartphones in their pockets, and some % of those are on, with WiFi enabled,</div>
<div>and some % of <i>those</i> have used the WiFi modem/router in question and have stored its password.</div>
<div>Let's say 25 such phones, though it might possibly be 50.</div>
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<div>Assume that no one is making intentional use of WiFi (streaming the service, watching movies, checking emails...) other than the "official" streaming iPhone,</div>
<div>but some (most?) of those with WiFi enabled might have connected "automatically" to the modem/router in question and are doing passive tasks, unattended.</div>
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<div>With 25-50 such phones, could that raid bandwidth enough to cause hiccups in a live video upload?</div>
<div>(Or if not with 25-50 phones, what about 250-500 such phones in a larger hall? Or some even-larger number?)</div>
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<div>If that could be a problem, are there solutions other than the obvious one -- asking everyone to power off, or use airplane mode, etc.??</div>
<div>Or some sort of temporary lock-out of all but the preferred device?</div>
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<div>Thanks for any insights and advice.</div>
<div>Duane Dale</div>
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