Americans who host media servers for friends & family and are forced to use a cable-based ISP, what is your upload/download setup? Also, what is your rationale for your speeds?
Xfinity is not cheap, upload speeds are garbage and although I want my users to have a great experience, I don’t want to spend tons of money to host this?
Do you make your users pay for access? That seems pretty shitty imo but I’m hosting encodes (no remuxes) but between my various non-local family members and a couple buddies from college, I’m maxing out my upload speeds and need to figure out what to do.
I have Xfinity now, so uploads are pretty good (300/80), but I used to have Spectrum, which not only cost more but only got about 8 mbps up. My solution was to restrict clients to low bandwidth streams, like 3mbps. I only had a couple users, though, so obviously there’s a limit to how far that will scale.
If you can’t upgrade or switch providers to increase bandwidth nor throttle clients, I think the only other solution would be time restrictions, but it’s really going to depend on your users whether that’s effective.