Placeshifter using too much bandwidth - throttle?

[jayemdae]

I have installed the newest version of SageTV last weekend and it works great, but for one issue. If I connect to my SageTV box from anywhere on the internet (i.e. through my broadband connection) I am told my home internet slows down considerably. I am getting a 1500ms ping time inside my home network out until I drop the SageTV connection. Is there any way to make the output to the Placeshifter encode at a lower quality (or some how else use less bandwidth)?

[GKusnick]

You can change the Placeshifter bitrate on the Streaming tab of the Settings dialog. (See Appendix N of the SageTV manual.)

But high ping times are a measure of latency, not bandwidth. It's possible that your router has some performance issues, unrelated to your upstream bandwidth, that's causing it to bog down under heavy load.

[jayemdae]

Thank you for your reply.

My router is provided by the company I receive my broadband connection from. It is possible, but my upstream connection is not particularly fast.

I am using the Linux Ubuntu install of SageTV. I downloaded the manual, but the manual seems to be showing examples for Windows. Is there a manual or instructions on how to do this for the Linux install?

Thank you again.

[GKusnick]

I don't use Linux myself, but I assume the streaming options are the same regardless of platform. (And you adjust those settings on the Placeshifter side, not on the server, in case that wasn't clear.)

[jayemdae]

Thank you so much! That is what I was missing!