[sudo-discuss] what's the speed of our Omni wifi?

[Stephen Novotny]

Yah 1.6Mb up is probably not good enough, but maybe the person who,'s live
streaming will have their own hotspot since I haven't heard back from them
yet.
On Dec 12, 2014 10:27 AM, "Jenny Ryan" <tunabananas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Our connection is terrible for livestreaming. There are two possible
> solutions I can think of:
> 1) limiting some large portion of our available upstream to a wired
> connection only. not sure this is possible (cc'ing the mesh crew),
> 2) we could use a portable hotspot. i believe AT&T has good 4G coverage at
> Omni, so I can pay a bit more money for my smartphone bill this month and
> we can use it as a hotspot.
>
> 1 Mbps x 60 seconds x 60 minutes x 3 hours = 10,800 / 8bits per byte =
> 1.3GB of data
>
> Totally doable, though a backup or two would be great!
>
> Jenny
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> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 4:57 PM, J Clark <hello at sl-co.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/11/14 2:52 PM, yar wrote:
>> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Stephen Novotny
>> > <novotny.stephen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Catalyst Project event folks have located someone to record and
>> livestream
>> >> the panel. The videographer wants to know what speed our wifi
>> connection is
>> >> - does anyone know? Thanks!
>> > ~25Mb down, 1.6up
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>> Wow, that's pretty awful.
>> Upstream is slow enough that streaming out isn't practical, unless it's
>> compressed audio only.
>>
>>   j.
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