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[HTPC4ME]

first off i'd like to apologize for my many posts i've disappeared from... My mom recently passed, and i've not spent much time on the "devices" but i do plan to revisit these topics in the near future.

I just received a big jump in internet speeds from Centurylink/qwest i'm now up to a 5 mbps upload. And i'm wondering what the suggested best route is for streaming my library to my devices away from home? do i need to enable conversion in media network for hd files/music etc? or what is your guys recommended setup for someone with speeds similar to mine? I will be going to visit my dad again tomm, and would love to be able to access my files there at the best speeds possible. And maybe get him into jriver too
Thanks for any advice

[glynor]

Lucky.

Well, re your Internets, not your mom.  Sorry about that.   

[JimH]

Sorry to hear of your mom.  Take good care of your dad.

[JimH]

You can set conversion on the client side.  Media Network / Client Options.

[glynor]

What kind of devices?

[HTPC4ME]

Sorry to hear of your mom.  Take good care of your dad.

thank you Jim

What kind of devices?

cellphones, tablet when i'm away from home and on my dad's desktop and laptop when i'm there.

You can set conversion on the client side.  Media Network / Client Options.

so nothing needs to be done on my end (my residence where library exists?) just on the clients... so my cellphones, tablets/laptop and dad's devices goto client options and set conversion there? if that's correct.. what settings do you suggest i/we use for the best results?
Thanks for replies guys.

[JimH]

Your router and your firewall need to allow access to your server.  You could test with a cell phone by turning off wireless so you're only using the cell's network.

[HTPC4ME]

ran tests today at dad's... it worked fabulously.

it took about 30 seconds to load the movie (buffering/ total size - hour and 35 minutes/1.7GB) but after it started playing there were no hiccups, played great! i then tested his speeds via speakeasy... 2.91 down and 1.26 up.

I've yet to test how it will work when connecting wireless from his house via a laptop... so that will be interesting especially being he only has wireless G.

Also on his machine, and on my server at home. i left conversion set to No conversion for all types.

very impressive

[Scolex]

Wireless G is more than fast enough provided the signal is good.
The bottle neck will be the ~3Mb/s down speed which is ~1/8 of the real world 802.11G throughput (20-25Mb/s).

[HTPC4ME]

and that's where one would need to start playing with vid conversion? or preconvert there whole vid library to acceptable g download speeds?

[hulkss]

Just received new Fiber To The Premises (FTTP) service. From the press release "this FTTP network, which will leverage both gigabit passive optical network (GPON) and Active Ethernet (AE) technologies, should see significant enhancements their existing voice, video, and data services, such as the potential to receive broadband speeds of up to one gigabit per second (Gbps)."

Currently at 100 Mb down, 30 Mb up

[HTPC4ME]

that would break my bank...but be great to experience

[Scolex]

Just received new Fiber To The Premises (FTTP) service. From the press release "this FTTP network, which will leverage both gigabit passive optical network (GPON) and Active Ethernet (AE) technologies, should see significant enhancements their existing voice, video, and data services, such as the potential to receive broadband speeds of up to one gigabit per second (Gbps)."

Currently at 100 Mb down, 30 Mb up

Where are you located? As far as I know I can't even get anything that fast where I am (NW Chicago burbs).

[HTPC4ME]

at dads, and i tried the wifi.. it works but lots of buffering... suggestions?

also is it possible by chance to tell the clients that are connecting to jriver to download all thumbnails, and make them stick on every connection? i've noticed once connected via wifi if I scroll quickly through movies/recently imported that it bogs down, because it has to reload/re-download the thumbnails. Is there a setting to make jriver download all thumbnails instantly upon connecting, so that in future connections it would only have to correct the thumbs that are new(files that are recently imported) by doing so the past library items would load instantly because they would have already been downloaded to that machine from the prior connection?

Thanks,  i'm here till sunday... hoping i can speed this up via wifi, so thumbs load quicker/stick, and there is no buffering.
The screenshot below is from my hp folio book at dad's (when at home network via wireless N it loads thumbs, and plays movies instantly.

[hulkss]

Where are you located? As far as I know I can't even get anything that fast where I am (NW Chicago burbs).

I'm in Luck, WI, population 1100

Calix, a provider of broadband communications access systems and software  revealed that Lakeland Communications has selected the EXA Powered Calix (News - Alert) E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) and 700GE family of optical network terminals (ONTs) for its fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) deployments in Luck and Milltown, Wis.

[SamuelMaki]

I have now just 100/10 Mb connection, but I have planned moving up to 1000/100 Mb connection, but I guess my old lines limits the speed too much... So, yeah, maybe I will just switch to 100/100 Mb... I did have OP's connection (40/5), but I think the up-speed is too low for streaming HD-content... It will be just fine for SD-material though...

Remember to turn the firewall of from the router and I guess you should upgrade to N-wireless (the TP-Link routers are cheap and they work good enough...). G to N is a huge difference

[HTPC4ME]

ohhhhh.. do i need to open the same port on dad's router/modem too? would that speed it up as well? guess i assumed i didnt need to due to being here and i'm just downloading, not uploading.
Thanks

[JimH]

If it works at all, the ports are open.  The buffering may just be bandwidth related.  Try moving closer to the wireless router or moving it.