| said by Moostang:If you implement rate-limiting or some other QOS you can keep Sling from using up all your bw to prevent impact to your home network.
This.
With a cable system, you always want at least 10-15% of your upload reserved so that everything will still work. If the upload is maxed, download (and latency) suffer immensely.
Just an example...
I use pfSense on a computer for my firewall, with some QoS rules in place. My official upload is 1.5mbit, but I regularly see 1.7-1.9mbit upload. In the QoS rules, the firewall is only aware that I have 1.4mbit of upload, that way nothing else will suffer. It does hard limit my upload at 1.4, but I can be streaming video from my Windows Home Server to the outside world, and nothing inside suffers. Gaming still works great, Netflix in the living room still works great, no matter what is being uploaded. |
