I don't know why this is coming up now, maybe everybody thought the virus would go away in a few months. But I have churches either uploading their worship services right afterward, or trying to live stream them, to Facebook or YouTube.
Rural churches don't have tons of money, so they tend to be on our lowest speed plan. But even if I just upped their speed without increasing the price, I don't think I can achieve what is in their mind, that the pastor can upload the video from the church in 5 or 10 minutes after the service and then go home. Even on our highest wireless speed plan. We have lots of unused upstream bandwidth at the towers because of mostly licensed backhaul links and symmetric bandwidth from upstream providers. But the last mile only has so much bandwidth because we set the down/up ratio typically to 75/25. Has anyone faced this problem and solved it? It seems to me some of the files are quite large. Like 8 GB for an hour of video. And if they try to upload 2 or 3 of them simultaneously, the percent completion advances so slowly they think it has stopped. Does this mean they are recording in 1080p or god forbid 2160p, and maybe 60fps instead of 30 fps? And then uploading the high res file, only perhaps to have Facebook downconvert it? Is there some video app they should be using to optimize the video before uploading? Preferably a free or cheap one? And no an online converter, because then you'd still have to upload the original file, right? Or tell them yes your Internet is slow, take the laptop to somewhere with cable or fiber and upload from there? Even Comcast "gig speed" is only 35 Mbps upload. Yes, that is potentially 15 times what we are giving them, but still not fast enough to upload a 1 hour video in the blink of an eye.
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