Streaming from Home Cloud

Edgar R. Zakarian · January 15, 2016

Okay,

A work colleague is trying to stream from home, and it's slow and lagging.

Home: 90/90 fiber net

Asus Overpowered router something something

Laptop (Cable to router)

(Works perfectly at home, also on Wifi)

Wife: 90/90 Fiber net

Standard netgear 300 Mbit router

Laptop (cable to router)

Lagging, not working properly.

He's the only one using the internet / Router.

Files he's trying to stream, MKV files 6-10GB.

What's the bottleneck here??

Naeaes · January 15, 2016

The 90/90 is only to the first node in the ISPs network. After that, all bets are off. The connection could be routed through a huge detour or a jammed node. Also in streaming, the latency plays a part. It shouldn't affect file transfer much once it starts but in solutions where the connection kind of starts and stops a lot, it can really hurt.

I don't believe there's anything that you can do about it but you can extrapolate the latency between the two by using ping command in command prompt and the route the connection takes using the tracert command.

Setting up a VPN between the two usually helps to make the round-trip as short as possible. Windows has come with a VPN host service built in since Vista but it's a bit tricky to use. Something like the VPN mode in teamviewer is a lot easier. It's included in the free version but it becomes available through the custom installation only.

Edgar R. Zakarian · January 15, 2016

The 90/90 is only to the first node in the ISPs network. After that, all bets are off. The connection could be routed through a huge detour or a jammed node. Also in streaming, the latency plays a part. It shouldn't affect file transfer much once it starts but in solutions where the connection kind of starts and stops a lot, it can really hurt.

I don't believe there's anything that you can do about it but you can extrapolate the latency between the two by using ping command in command prompt and the route the connection takes using the tracert command.

Setting up a VPN between the two usually helps to make the round-trip as short as possible. Windows has come with a VPN host service built in since Vista but it's a bit tricky to use. Something like the VPN mode in teamviewer is a lot easier. It's included in the free version but it becomes available through the custom installation only.

Wow this post had so much new useful information. Thank you very much.

Didn't even know Teamviewer had VPN.