Thanks for the input. I am using lumafusion on an iPad 11. There are several video qualities to choose from the lowest being web and the highest being extreme. That essentially translates to about 6 megabits per second on the low end up to 150 megabits per second on the high-end. I found a chart in YouTube help that recommends appropriate bitrate for upload depending upon framerate, standard or high-definition, and a couple of other factors. I'm trying to soak in all the knowledge I can to understand the process , but it seems like it is not 100% that it will be the same every time. At least in my experience so far. For instance I watched one of my videos connected to my home Wi-Fi but I was outside and it played in 360p. I walked inside and stood right next to the router with 300 megabytes per second download speed and the video then played in 480p. At that point I changed it to 1080P and the picture became crystal clear. It's a learning process for sure but I appreciate any input
There are a lot of variables that could be causing your results. The first thing is to measure your internet speed. So head over to
speedtest.net and run a test on your ISP service. ISPs don't always deliver what you are paying for. Also, the time of day has a lot to do with it. Unless you are on a dedicated Business service, you are are on a shared service, which means that you are sharing a pool of bandwidth with hundreds of other people. You might have great speeds at 4:00am when no one else is using their bandwidth. But at 7:00pm when everyone has gotten home from work, eaten supper and is watching Netflix (streaming media), your connection speed may be nothing, because regardless of what you are paying for, you ISP only has so much bandwidth to offer, and as more people take a piece of that pie, the slices get smaller and smaller until it is paper-thin.
There could also be a bottleneck on your system. Certain pieces of hardware get "Priority" service over other things. Xbox One is one of these. This has to do with contracts that Microsoft has paid so that ISPs will give Xboxes priority bandwidth over other devices. PC's and smartphones do not get this priority service. So if someone is watching the 4K streaming video on an Xbox, in your house, it will suck up all the bandwidth. Another thing is wifi extenders. Extenders are really bad at hogging network bandwidth or causing network issues on devices connected to the main network.
The list goes on and on, of what might be the cause, including a neighbor that has hacked into your network and is stealing internet service from you. The best thing to do is disconnect everything but the device you are using. Log on to your router management page and see what else is on your network. If you see something that is on there besides the one device you are using, you can block that MAC address, and change your network password to something more difficult to hack. When you are certain, that only one device is connected, run the speednet.net test and see what you get.
