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how many musicians per jam - carvinae185@gmail.com - 11-12-2020
Assuming good gear and decent internet bandwidth ( 35 down, 5 up or better), would you expect expanding a jam from 4 to 5 members to tip us over the edge in terms of latency?
We're all within 70 miles of each other in the greater Seattle area.
RE: how many musicians per jam - Dimitri Muskens - 11-12-2020
(11-12-2020, 04:19 PM)carvinae185@gmail.com Wrote: Assuming good gear and decent internet bandwidth ( 35 down, 5 up or better), would you expect expanding a jam from 4 to 5 members to tip us over the edge in terms of latency?>>>
We're all within 70 miles of each other in the greater Seattle area.
Nope, shouldn't be an issue.
Although 5up is rather meager. (remember it's Mbit., not Mbyte)
RE: how many musicians per jam - carvinae185@gmail.com - 11-12-2020
(11-12-2020, 04:48 PM)Dimitri Muskens Wrote:(11-12-2020, 04:19 PM)carvinae185@gmail.com Wrote: Assuming good gear and decent internet bandwidth ( 35 down, 5 up or better), would you expect expanding a jam from 4 to 5 members to tip us over the edge in terms of latency?>>>
We're all within 70 miles of each other in the greater Seattle area.
Nope, shouldn't be an issue.
Although 5up is rather meager. (remember it's Mbit., not Mbyte)
Yes, unfortunately that's all that's available to me , on Centurylink DSL. We don't do video though
any thoughts about putting the JK computer in the router's DMZ?
RE: how many musicians per jam - Dimitri Muskens - 11-12-2020
(11-12-2020, 06:12 PM)carvinae185@gmail.com Wrote:(11-12-2020, 04:48 PM)Dimitri Muskens Wrote:(11-12-2020, 04:19 PM)carvinae185@gmail.com Wrote: Assuming good gear and decent internet bandwidth ( 35 down, 5 up or better), would you expect expanding a jam from 4 to 5 members to tip us over the edge in terms of latency?>>>
We're all within 70 miles of each other in the greater Seattle area.
Nope, shouldn't be an issue.
Although 5up is rather meager. (remember it's Mbit., not Mbyte)
Yes, unfortunately that's all that's available to me , on Centurylink DSL. We don't do video though
any thoughts about putting the JK computer in the router's DMZ?
>>>
Why would you want to go there?
Apart from risking being hacked is see no difference.
5up is 5up, inside and outside your router.
Don't worry about it too much. Should be well sufficient for 5 peers. Just don't tax your connection with other bandwidth hungry activities.
Furthermore, if there would be issues in the session it could be not even your problem. Bandwidth is nice to have, a 'clean' connection (no 'noise'/jitter) way nicer.
RE: how many musicians per jam - carvinae185@gmail.com - 11-12-2020
(11-12-2020, 06:27 PM)Dimitri Muskens Wrote:(11-12-2020, 06:12 PM)carvinae185@gmail.com Wrote:(11-12-2020, 04:48 PM)Dimitri Muskens Wrote:(11-12-2020, 04:19 PM)carvinae185@gmail.com Wrote: Assuming good gear and decent internet bandwidth ( 35 down, 5 up or better), would you expect expanding a jam from 4 to 5 members to tip us over the edge in terms of latency?>>>
We're all within 70 miles of each other in the greater Seattle area.
Nope, shouldn't be an issue.
Although 5up is rather meager. (remember it's Mbit., not Mbyte)
Yes, unfortunately that's all that's available to me , on Centurylink DSL. We don't do video though
any thoughts about putting the JK computer in the router's DMZ?
>>>
Why would you want to go there?
Apart from risking being hacked is see no difference.
5up is 5up, inside and outside your router.
Don't worry about it too much. Should be well sufficient for 5 peers. Just don't tax your connection with other bandwidth hungry activities.
Furthermore, if there would be issues in the session it could be not even your problem. Bandwidth is nice to have, a 'clean' connection (no 'noise'/jitter) way nicer.
Security risk was the first thing I thought of. The DMZ idea came from somebody on the jamkazam Facebook forum --- as a way to reduce jitter?
RE: how many musicians per jam - StuartR - 11-12-2020
(11-12-2020, 04:19 PM)carvinae185@gmail.com Wrote: Assuming good gear and decent internet bandwidth ( 35 down, 5 up or better), would you expect expanding a jam from 4 to 5 members to tip us over the edge in terms of latency?It's not so much bandwidth as it is latency. If any of your 5 members have poor latency to any of your other session members then your audio timing will suffer. You can use the built-in statistics pane in the JK client session window to check each members latency to you. Just hover your mouse pointer over the little dot on each members rectangular display and look at the statistics. The little dot itself will be either green, yellow or red as a rough indication of latency, jitter etc.
We're all within 70 miles of each other in the greater Seattle area.