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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Those things certainly
could affect the quality. Even a few people using a standard
connection can do it – when the three people at my house are all
online, everything takes longer. If someone at the church is tech
savvy and the router will permit, they could probably set up a
dedicated network for the stream that has priority over everything
else. I think, although I could be wrong, that most Netgear brand
routers have that ability, but you definitely need to know what
you're doing. Connecting via Ethernet cable will help to a
certain extent, but if you are streaming out to rest of the world,
the bottle neck is the cable modem and your internet provider. </font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2021-12-06 11:32 AM, Duane Dale via
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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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