Use case: YouTube Live Streaming

[bobradamus]

Hey Everyone, I’m hoping for some tips!

I’ve begun trialling using openmptcprouter to provide the backhaul for our youtube channel. We live stream from airports in different locations and rely entirely on decent 5G network connections to make it work. So far we’d got by with one of these, however it’s not very resilient because when we do have a blip, the connection stutters for a few seconds. We also suffer from large metal objects interfering with the signal (the planes!).

I’m using a Raspberry Pi4, a 4-port switch and an IONOS VPS at the other end, along with a Teltonika RUTX50 and a NETGEAR Nighthawk M6 Pro (really not impressed with the netgear) i.e. 2 x 5G cellular connections on different hardware.

During my tests I’ve noticed that if one of the routers reboots (unlikely), I’ve found that when the connection comes back up; (1) it takes several minutes to begin using the route that’s just come back up, and (2) sometimes, if the teltonika comes back up it tends to then be limited to only matching the upload speed of the netgear, when the teltonika is my superior connection and far faster.

Is there a way to make sure that connections prefer the teltonika over the netgear more readily after a reboot or connection loss on the teltonika? I actually don’t want my connection to be completely load balanced across the two connections, as the Teltonika is far superior.

Any hints and tips on the settings?

Cheers, Rob