Is Your Internet Upload Speed Enough?

Higher internet upload speeds can greatly enhance your Boost for Daz experience and optimize expenses. Here's what works best.

We want to make sure that you have a great experience with Boost for Daz and yes...your internet connection' upload speed matters. Here's why, and how you can check to see if your internet speed is enough.

Context

Once you connect Daz Studio to your private virtual GPU (running Iray Server) on Boost for Daz, and you hit the Render button, Daz Studio goes through the process of building (locally), uploading (to Boost for Daz) and then rendering (on Boost for Daz) your scene or project.

How Internet Bandwidth (Upload speeds) Impacts Your Experience

When you want to have a great experience with Boost for Daz - slow internet upload speeds bite. But it's not the end of the world.

Currently (and we are working to reduce this impact) Boost for Daz begins charging you for the GPU you select as soon as you get connected. The slower the internet upload speed, the longer the upload before rendering can begin...and hence, there's an associated increase in session charges based on the overall upload time.

Please note that slower upload speeds will not have any impact on the quality of your renders, but just that it will take longer.

There's a silver lining: Boost for Daz' cache management with Iray Server. The longest upload time is the first upload as Daz Studio prepares all the assts and other elements to be sent to the Iray Server on Boost for Daz so that it can render the scene as you intended. All those assets and elements are stored in cache memory on Boost for Daz, so any subsequent changes to that scene during that session - such as lighting, poses, etc. - are uploaded very quickly. In fact, only the 'delta' - the changes - are sent during subsequent uploads.

Check your Internet Bandwidth (Upload) Speed

Based on our experience so far, here's what we think your overall Boost for Daz experience might be based on your internet upload speed:

• Upload speeds between 100 Mbps (megabits per second) to 60 Mbps: Great experience. Best use of time and money.

• Upload speeds between 60 Mbps to 15 Mbps: Good experience.

• Upload speeds between 5 Mbps to 15 Mbps: It works. OK for occasional use.

• Upload speeds less than 5 Mbps: Sub-optimal experience. Don't recommend using Boost for Daz until you change locations, or upgrade your internet to a higher upload speed tier.

Checking your internet bandwidth speed in a couple different ways will give you insights into where possible bottlenecks might be - between the location of your computer and the path that internet connection takes to Boost for Daz servers in Chicago, USA.

Prior to doing these internet connection tests, make sure that all applications and unnecessary background tasks on your computer are completed and/or not running. If left running they tend to impact the CPU and hence the processing of internet speed checks.

Check #1 - Check connection to your local server

Navigate to speedtest.net using your favorite browser.

Main Screen at Speedtest.net

Speedtest.net will automatically default to the closest server to you. Leave all other settings to their default.

Press the GO button. Speedtest.net will start the Download test...(results in Mbps) (example screenshot below)

Followed by the Upload test...(results in Mbps) (example screenshot below)

Note the Upload speed. In this example the internet upload speed from this test computer to the closest server is 40.23 Mbps .

Check #2 - Check connection to a Chicago USA server

The second check you can do is to check your internet connection speeds, in particular, your upload speeds, to a server in Chicago, USA. That is the location of our Boost for Daz servers.

To do this, go back to the main Speedtest.net home screen and select the Change Server link.

Changing Servers on the Speedtest.net home screen

After selecting, 'Change Server', enter 'Chicago' in the search box that appears and select the "Chicago, IL - Nitel" server.

Press the GO button after being returned the Speedtest.net home screen.

After it goes through the Download then Upload speed tests, note down your connections speeds.

Refer to the table to assess your viability for an optimal experience with Boost for Daz:

	Upper Limit (in Mbps)	Lower Limit (in Mbps)	Predicted Experience
If your Upload speeds are between -	100	60	Great experience. Optimal use of time and money.
If your Upload speeds are between -	60	15	Good experience.
If your Upload speeds are between -	15	5	It works. OK for occasional use.
If your Upload speeds are less than	5		Sub-optimal experience. Don't recommend using Boost for Daz until you change locations, or upgrade your internet to a higher upload speed tier.