Remote video streaming / upload priority

Me and a buddy have taken on a project where he has a media server wired up @ his house using plex to stream to his tv / my iphone / ipad remotely. Here's the issue my friend put on the plex forums:

Now, we were curious as to whether or not there's a way to assign upload priority. He is constantly downloading and that incurs a nice hit to his upload speed. Can we make it so that I (I live 7 miles away) get the priority on his upload?

We are trying to figure out a way to make the streaming fluent remotely. People on the Plex forums seem to have done it, but they know as much technical knowledge as a panda bear in china . I'm sorry for the choppy post, I've been sick with a staph infection and my sleep is pretty broken up .

Edit: We've also tried air video and they work about the same.

 

When you are talking about streaming media outside LAN, which is WAN. You are playing with multicast, I seriously doubt that your ISP would allow you to do that. It is another whole new level of networking.

I don't think your device or software is design to do that.

 

The software is designed to allow remote streaming.

 

That is unicast. Streaming video like you watch youtube is multicast.

 

Take a look: http://www.plexapp.com/

Is there a way to prioritize upload or not?

 

What is your upload speed? Do you use router? If you do, what is the port for the application? What is your public IP Address? How do you connect from WAN? You have to hit to your router IP address. I need those answers before I can say something about it.

You can prioritize the upload if you have enough bandwidth for upload speed, and you router know how to handle QoS.

 

testmy.net @ the largest file size (17.5MB) says the upload is 1.9 Mb/s. Yes, he uses a router. I'll PM you the IP / port. Motorola SB 6120 modem goes through an airport extreme base station. He's running a 2010 macmini unibody for PMS (gigabit wired everything) connected to a FREENAS server with a Core 2 duo. He is running ZFS file system on Raid 10 (1+0). He is using Welcome - Please Select Your Service Area | Cox Communications for internet.

 

Oaky, I check that port is definitely listening to the traffic. Your WAN side look fine to me since the port is open for me to connect. I can't tell you about Apple router QoS because I am Cisco guy, but I can tell you this.

QoS or you call prioritize is the same concept. When you connect to each other on WAN, there are too many factors. QoS works best on flat network (flat network doesn't have router) like in your house. Here is the controllable factor. When you connect through WAN, you connect through multiple routers, which I called hop. Each time you make from one hop to another. Router strips QoS bit from the packet.

To simply answer your question, you can't really do QoS on WAN unless you directly connect to each other like having T1 line or Fiber link between your houses, and you must have enterprise class router to achieve that. Well, the answer is no. There is nothing you can do based on the information that you gave me.

 

The Airport base station wont do QoS. you could do it with a pair of Qos Capable routers and a good VPN tunnel.

I may have to look into it as I have never used or seen Plex before