FVS318N ensuring adequate bandwidth for streaming encoder

Great ideas, DaneA!

Thank you for your help!

Regards,

DonD

Hi DonD, 

If ever you have already opened an online case, keep us posted.  

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team

DaneA,

I've decided not to open a support ticket, as the church can't affort the Netgear Support plan.  The unit is older than 90 days now, so it doesn't quality for complementary support.  So, I'm try to figure this out with the help of this community.  See my new post titled "FVS318N - QoS or Bandwidth Profile?".  I would appreciate any help you and any others can provide.

Thanks much!

DonD

Hi DonD,

In relation to the QoS setup on the FVS318N, I think you'll need to create a firewall rule (for example: an outbound rule against IP of the encoder 192.168.0.240) and to that rule then he can assign a QoS Profile and also a Bandwidth profile to ensure the encoder has the required bandwidth. In the FVS318N reference manual see page 173 onwards here.

Hope it helps. :) 

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team

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Thanks, 

Well, here is the surprise!  In my struggle to get adequate reserved bandwidth for the encoder, I noticed the overall bandwidth on the router LAN ports was diminishing, to the point where it was only about 3 Mbps down and about the same for the up speed.  I ran with that rate for a couple days so I know it wasn't just a temporary thing.  I checked the ISP bandwidth by putting the laptop right on the modem output and it was always 50 down and 10 up, which are exactly what we are buying from our ISP.

In my desperation, I decided to make a config file of my settings, then restore the router to factory settings.  I then, using that config file, restored my settings.  And, WALA!, the router LAN port outputs were showing 47 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up, very close to what I would expect.  This indicates to me that the embedded routing software code the rounter creates as a result of each configuration change/addition becomes defective and suffers from reduced performance.  So, we did a stream of our Sunday service last Sunday and it was holding very close to the 2 Mbps needed for the upstream.  It held for almost the entire service, then near the end it suddenly dropped to around 600 Kbps, which is too low to support HD streaming at 720p.  Now, I did have the Guest VLAN enabled during the service, and someone might have attempted an upload or something, but I would think that if I have the Outbound and Inbound rules, their referenced QoS Profile, and Bandwidth Profile all set properly, that should have guaranteed bandwidth for the encoder regardless of activity on the Guest VLAN. 

I would appreciate anyone's help with this, as I would like to be done with this once and for all.  Here are screenshots of the router showing how I have it configured relative to this discussion.

Thanks for any help,

DonD

Note, the Guest VLAN is only blocked during church office business hours to maximize staff performance.

We don't want it blocked on Sunday, as we want members to be able to use it before and after the service.

I expected that the QoS Profile and Bandwidth Profile would guarantee the encoder would have adequate

bandwidth regardless of Guest activity.

I don't understand if I really need the following 2 configuration shots, as I already setup a QoS Profile under Security Services.  Any ideas???

End of screenshots --

Yesterday, I eliminated the QoS settings under Network Configuration and ran a long streaming test with only the 2 streaming security rules and their corresponding QoS Profile and Bandwidth Profile services.  Everything went well for almost an hour, then the streaming encoder indicated it didn't have enough bandwidth.  I did notice the encoder was very hot.  I noticed I had it placed right next to the laptop such that the laptop's fan vent blew hot air right on the encoder.  So, I moved it away and ran another long test for over an hour with no problems.  I will be running a stream tomorrow morning at our church service, so we will see how it goes.  I will also have my laptop on line to run Wireshark to get network packet captures, should the problem arise again.

I will report back here in a few days with my findings.

DonD

Hi DonD,

You're welcome! :)  I'm very glad that the problem has been resolved.  

I appreciate that you shared your experience and the steps you've done to resolve the problem here in the community.  This will serve as reference for other community members. :) 

Cheers,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team