[TriLUG] Improvements for my church's network

[Thomas V Thomas via TriLUG]

You can check this link for Youtube livestream bandwidth requirements..
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853702?hl=en

1080p @30fps is about 5000 Kbps (5 Mbps)


On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Brian via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> I'm no expert in the subject, but unless you have multiple Internet
> connections, link aggregation won't do you a bit of good.  Your switch
> should have more than enough bandwidth to saturate your internet connection
> without breaking a sweat with just a single link.
>
> I'm also not sure how much good link aggregation would do you even if you
> did have two or more WAN links; seems like it would just move the
> bottleneck to the next hop (but maybe that hop has a wider pipe, so there
> could be a benefit).
>
> -B
>
> On 04/19/2017 03:20 PM, James Jones via TriLUG wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> Recently purchased a Linksys LGS318 smart switch for the church's LAN.
>> My knowledge of managed/smart switching is at beginner's level.
>>
>> The church wants to live stream the video of our Sunday Morning
>> Worship Service. The computer that will supply the video stream to the
>> internet has relatively good speed with a 1 gigabit network interface.
>>
>> Would it be good to use link aggregation to improve the throughput or
>> reliability to the internet? If so, I would need to add another
>> gigabit nic interface to the computer, wouldn't I?
>>
>> Any advice for achieving Link aggregation would be helpful.
>>
>> Is there a how to that you can recommend that will help me get started
>> with this?
>>
>>
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