- Dec 21, 2017
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Hi folks,
BI is up and running beautifully; has been for me since last May. Best money I ever spent.
My new issue is that when I'm out and about away from my LAN, using my cellular connection on my phone or any other device, getting the camera images to fill in or play is relatively slow, compared to how it was up until a month or so ago. The android app connects nearly instantly (~1-2 seconds at most), then leaves me at a screen that looks like this for a while; it may be 10-15 seconds before all of the camera views fill in:
Even after the views populate, if I click on any of them to start a video it probably takes about 10 seconds to start playing.
This has essentially nothing to do with BI; I'm sure it's some sort of configuration problem probably with my router.
Again, when I'm on my LAN, the images populate instantly, and videos play right away. It's like, click icon and BAM! Populated images. So, the computer and software are plenty fast. It's NOT BI being laggy.
My home connection to the internet is strong, a solid 90-100 Mb/s download with 9-10 Mb/s upload.
So, what has changed since last month? Two things:
1. I upgraded my phone from a OnePlus 3T to a zippy fast OnePlus 6T. In addition to the phone being faster and superior user interface ways, it maintains a much faster connection to AT&T than the old phone did. I've done speed checks one the mobile service in times I see the above issues, and verify that I've got plenty of speed (typically 25-50 Mb/s download and at least 5 Mb/s upload). My 3T rarely reported more than 20 M/s down &5 Mbps up. So, the phone itself is fast and well connected to the internet.
2. I applied a "routine" update to my ASUS RT-86U router. I suspect this may have been the cause of the problem; I've noticed some odd behavior after doing it, namely a wifi printer that used to be connected just fine would sometimes drop off. This seems to have cleared up, but it was suspicious. Also, the router lost some of my settings and I had to re-enter them to get back to where I was.
I checked and when I'm on mobile data, I can stream from my home media server fast, with no lag either in playback or populating my view of the library. So, there's no systemic problem with accessing things from remote places through my router. It's just in how it slowly passes the BI stuff.
For now I've been using port forwarding (I know, I know, please don't flame me...) for BI. I re-entered its settings in the router forwarding area and it works. Slowly. But there's probably some sort of optimization I should do to speed the outbound traffic. Are there specific router settings I should look into that might impact quickness of serving images and video to the outbound internet, presumably to the internal LAN IP of the BI server?
I'm preparing to set my system up as a VPN run by the router (OpenVPN), when I switch internet providers next month. I'll be on Metronet then, using a static IP, and planning to attach my system to a domain I bought, so I can just use the domain name if I ever want to access from a device not logged into the VPN.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
BI is up and running beautifully; has been for me since last May. Best money I ever spent.
My new issue is that when I'm out and about away from my LAN, using my cellular connection on my phone or any other device, getting the camera images to fill in or play is relatively slow, compared to how it was up until a month or so ago. The android app connects nearly instantly (~1-2 seconds at most), then leaves me at a screen that looks like this for a while; it may be 10-15 seconds before all of the camera views fill in:
Even after the views populate, if I click on any of them to start a video it probably takes about 10 seconds to start playing.
This has essentially nothing to do with BI; I'm sure it's some sort of configuration problem probably with my router.
Again, when I'm on my LAN, the images populate instantly, and videos play right away. It's like, click icon and BAM! Populated images. So, the computer and software are plenty fast. It's NOT BI being laggy.
My home connection to the internet is strong, a solid 90-100 Mb/s download with 9-10 Mb/s upload.
So, what has changed since last month? Two things:
1. I upgraded my phone from a OnePlus 3T to a zippy fast OnePlus 6T. In addition to the phone being faster and superior user interface ways, it maintains a much faster connection to AT&T than the old phone did. I've done speed checks one the mobile service in times I see the above issues, and verify that I've got plenty of speed (typically 25-50 Mb/s download and at least 5 Mb/s upload). My 3T rarely reported more than 20 M/s down &5 Mbps up. So, the phone itself is fast and well connected to the internet.
2. I applied a "routine" update to my ASUS RT-86U router. I suspect this may have been the cause of the problem; I've noticed some odd behavior after doing it, namely a wifi printer that used to be connected just fine would sometimes drop off. This seems to have cleared up, but it was suspicious. Also, the router lost some of my settings and I had to re-enter them to get back to where I was.
I checked and when I'm on mobile data, I can stream from my home media server fast, with no lag either in playback or populating my view of the library. So, there's no systemic problem with accessing things from remote places through my router. It's just in how it slowly passes the BI stuff.
For now I've been using port forwarding (I know, I know, please don't flame me...) for BI. I re-entered its settings in the router forwarding area and it works. Slowly. But there's probably some sort of optimization I should do to speed the outbound traffic. Are there specific router settings I should look into that might impact quickness of serving images and video to the outbound internet, presumably to the internal LAN IP of the BI server?
I'm preparing to set my system up as a VPN run by the router (OpenVPN), when I switch internet providers next month. I'll be on Metronet then, using a static IP, and planning to attach my system to a domain I bought, so I can just use the domain name if I ever want to access from a device not logged into the VPN.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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