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Audio bandwidth

The audio settings have an impact on the required network bandwidth. The table below summarises network requirements with respect to the configuration of:

  • Channels : stereo/mono
  • Quality : max/high/medium/low
  • Audio buffer duration : 2.67 ms (64 samples), 5.33 ms (128 samples), 10.67 ms (256 samples)

With the following units

  • ms : milliseconds
  • Kbit/s : Kilo-bits per second (Reminder : 1 Mbit/s = 1024 Kbit/s, 1 KByte/s = 8 Kbit/s)
  • Mbit/s : Mega-bits per second
Channels Quality Bandwidth (for buffer : 2.67 ms) Bandwidth (for buffer : 5.33 ms) Bandwidth (for buffer : 10.67 ms)
Stereo Max 2004 Kbit/s 1770 Kbit/s 1654 Kbit/s
Stereo High 906 Kbit/s 729 Kbit/s 613 Kbit/s
Stereo Medium 678 Kbit/s 447 Kbit/s 331 Kbit/s
Stereo Low 612 Kbit/s 375 Kbit/s 259 Kbit/s
Mono Max 1236 Kbit/s 1002 Kbit/s 886 Kbit/s
Mono High 684 Kbit/s 480 Kbit/s 364 Kbit/s
Mono Medium 600 Kbit/s 369 Kbit/s 253 Kbit/s
Mono Low 540 Kbit/s 309 Kbit/s 193 Kbit/s

Network bandwidth

There is one upstream (musician sending to the Server) and one downstream (server sending back the mix to the musician)

A diagram of Jamulus network bandwidths from different audio qualities ranging from low to high
Calculate bandwidth use

Note also that mean ADSL2 transfer rate is 10 Mbit/s for downstream and 1 Mbit/s for upstream. The actual performance depends on distance to the provider, which may theoretically range from 24 Mbit/s at 0.3 km to 1.5 Mbit/s at 5.2 km for download rate.