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Let's talk about Number 2 - how do you know if you have enough bandwidth?

#TeamAvid #Avid #MediaComposer #Networking #Throughput #Bandwidth #Editing #PostChat

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But first:

Bandwidth - the upload and download speeds you're paying for with an Internet Service Provider.

Look at your home Internet bill. See something like..?
• 100 Mbps / 10 Mbps
• 100 / 10
Those numbers are your speeds to the public Internet:
• Download files at 100 megabits per second
• Upload files at 10 megabits per second

You're *expecting* this, but as you know, networks get slow.

So how can you determine if there's enough bandwidth at your location?
First, let's figure out how fast your current connection is to the Internet.

1. speedtest.net

2. Click/Tap [Change Server], then pick a server that's closest to your location .

3. Click [Go].

4. Done. Image
If those Speedtest numbers are high, you're feeling pretty good!

So you fire up your remote access software, connect to your edit bay, launch Avid, hit [Spacebar], then... nope. This is not real-time at all.

Or you mount a shared folder, grab some files and... no. Super slow.
Let's focus on that slow file transfer.

Here's one way to determine speed back to some shared folders on a server:

Get iPerf3 - iperf.fr/iperf-download…

It's a command-line tool, but don't worry. 😉 Image
Once iPerf3's downloaded:

1. Run iPerf3 on your computer.
2. Run iPerf3 on the destination computer / server.

Note: if you don't have remote access and admin rights to the destination computer / server, ask your IT department to assist with these next steps.
Ready?

Download iPerf3 on each computer (say, to the Desktop), then:

A. On the Server

1. Launch Terminal.
2. cd /Desktop
3. iperf3 -s
4. [Return]

B. On Your Computer

1. Launch Terminal.
2. cd /Desktop
3. iperf3 -c 192.168.0.2 (Server IP)
4. [Return]
If iPerf3 ran successfully, you'll see this on both the Server and Your Computer (AKA the Client).

Those Transfer and Bitrate columns?

That's the connection speed between your current location and the shared folder on the server over the public Internet. ImageImage
On Transfer and Bitrate:

• Bitrate - reported in megabits per second (Mbps)
• Transfer - reported in MegaBytes per second (MBps)

The difference?

• 1 Byte = 8 bits
• 8 bits = 1 Byte

Knowing that will save you a lot of headaches and/or alopecia down the road. Why?
There's Bandwidth. Then there's Throughput.

Throughput is the max amount of data that can travel through a network at any given time.

Picture a drinking straw chained together with other straws. It starts out as a giant smoothie straw, but ends up as a coffee sipper. ImageImage
So even though you have a ton of bandwidth to the public Internet, the smoothie straw quickly becomes a coffee sipper with:

1. Less bandwidth at the destination computer.
2. Slow hard drives, internal or connected as shared storage.
3. Minimal hardware on servers.
And that's where we come in.

Recap:

1. Speedtest.net - test your Internet speed from your current location.
• Tip: use the native app for your device's OS for more reliable results.

2. iPerf3 - test the connection between your computer and another endpoint. Image
Going back to this: why is playback so laggy when you hit the spacebar?

That's latency. For another time.

Or talk to @michaelkammes about @BeBopTechnology.
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