[Magdalen] A little IT help, please

[Brian Reid]

This is all your ISP's doing. They call it "traffic shaping". 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping )

This is exactly what the "Net Neutrality" movement was trying to 
prevent, and the court ruling that ISPs are allowed to do this basically 
means you are screwed. Very few people understood what "net neutrality" 
meant, so the courts chose to remove the requirement that networks be 
neutral with respect to traffic.

This might sound crazy, but the fastest way to upload your video is 
probably to put it on a USB drive or laptop, then go to a Starbucks or 
public library and upload from there. The parking lot outside the closed 
Starbucks or shuttered library will probably work.


On 2020-03-22 2:12 pm, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> -- I am thoroughly frustrated.  The plan was to livestream a Eucharist 
> from
> the church this morning on our FaceBook page.  We don't have wifi, so 
> the
> junior warden brought a hotspot. We practiced Friday evening, and it 
> went
> on to the page with no problem.  I did a short live piece from home 
> last
> evening, again with no trouble.  This morning we either couldn't get on 
> the
> internet or kept getting bumped off--even trying two different
> computers. We figured it was probably because every church in  the 
> country
> was streaming a service!  So we decided to take a video of the service 
> and
> post it later.
> 
> Did that and got a really great video.  But here's the problem.  When I
> tried to upload it to our page, it got about 5% of the way and then
> stopped.  I tried that twice.  Then I tried uploading it to YouTube,
> because someone said that might work better.  Well, it's uploading, but
> it's been 45 minutes already, 8% done, and it's telling me it will be
> another 2-1/2 hours.!  Is this normal? I can't imagine having to go 
> through
> this every time I want to post a video.
> 
> For this evening I'm just going to stream Evening Prayer from my house,
> which shoujldn't be a problem. And next Sunday I was planning to do 
> Morning
> Prayer from my house anyway. But looking ahead to the Palm Sunday and
> Easter services, which I'd like to have in the church with three or 
> four
> people, as we did today, I just can't imagine having to do this.  We'll
> have to record the services the day before.
> Am I missing something here?
> 
> I appreciate any wisdom you can offer.  You can reply offlist, if you
> prefer.
> 
> Thanks,
> Grace
> 
> 
> Grace Cangialosi
> Ruckersville, VA
> 
> *"Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with 
> great
> love."*
> *St. Teresa of Calcutta*