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    VUDU on the internet all the time?

    Hey all! Just picked up a VUDU for Christmas and I think I'm going to love it. I have in in my home theater with my BenQ projector and 100inch screen.

    So far I have downloaded 2 movies. I noticed today that my internet was a little slow. I looked at my modem and there was a lot of activity on it. I unplugged my VUDU box and all the activity stopped, and my internet was back up to normal.

    So what is the VUDU box doing in the background all the time? Both movies are completely downloaded so it wasn't that.
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    Re: VUDU on the internet all the time?

    Originally posted by mknoebel View Post
    Hey all! Just picked up a VUDU for Christmas and I think I'm going to love it. I have in in my home theater with my BenQ projector and 100inch screen.

    So far I have downloaded 2 movies. I noticed today that my internet was a little slow. I looked at my modem and there was a lot of activity on it. I unplugged my VUDU box and all the activity stopped, and my internet was back up to normal.

    So what is the VUDU box doing in the background all the time? Both movies are completely downloaded so it wasn't that.
    While your Vudu was sitting on the shelf, tons of new movies were released, so your Vudu is downloading the "heads" (first 30 seconds) of those movies to update your catalog. In about 4 days it should stop downloading so much stuff and your Vudu will be current.

    If you find the catalog updates to be consuming too much bandwidth you can throttle it back in Info & Settings.

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      Re: VUDU on the internet all the time?

      That makes sense. Thanks Ed.

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        Re: VUDU on the internet all the time?

        Originally posted by Nded View Post
        In about 4 days it should stop downloading so much stuff and your Vudu will be current.
        It actually only takes 3.72 Days. But results may vary depending on your download speed and available VUDU content.

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          Re: VUDU on the internet all the time?

          I know one of the things that I'm hoping for in the future is an option to increase the download speed for VUDU. Currently it doesn't download faster than 4mbs

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            Re: VUDU on the internet all the time?

            Another suggestion: you can probably throttle the bandwidth allowed VUDU in your router's admin. Consult your router support forums for help on that one. This can be useful to prevent bandwidth hogging of which P2P apps are notorious.

            That said, like others mentioned above, I haven't noticed anything too hoggy after the first few days.

            Frankly, our kids online gaming (with voice chat) puts more strain on our home network than VUDU.

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              Re: VUDU on the internet all the time?

              Originally posted by TDavid View Post
              Another suggestion: you can probably throttle the bandwidth allowed VUDU in your router's admin. Consult your router support forums for help on that one. This can be useful to prevent bandwidth hogging of which P2P apps are notorious.

              That said, like others mentioned above, I haven't noticed anything too hoggy after the first few days.

              Frankly, our kids online gaming (with voice chat) puts more strain on our home network than VUDU.
              Actually, doing that messes up the Vudu. If the Vudu senses it's not getting what is should for a given setting in the Vudu, it drops down to the next level.

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                Re: VUDU on the internet all the time?

                Originally posted by NA9D View Post
                Actually, doing that messes up the Vudu. If the Vudu senses it's not getting what is should for a given setting in the Vudu, it drops down to the next level.
                Haven't had any troubles here

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                  Re: VUDU on the internet all the time?

                  Originally posted by TDavid View Post
                  Haven't had any troubles here
                  Good. Mind telling me what you've got things set to? Seriously, I've tried to do this but it was a while ago. Maybe they changed some things in how the networking works.

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                    Re: VUDU on the internet all the time?

                    Originally posted by mknoebel View Post
                    Hey all! Just picked up a VUDU for Christmas and I think I'm going to love it. I have in in my home theater with my BenQ projector and 100inch screen.

                    So far I have downloaded 2 movies. I noticed today that my internet was a little slow. I looked at my modem and there was a lot of activity on it. I unplugged my VUDU box and all the activity stopped, and my internet was back up to normal.

                    So what is the VUDU box doing in the background all the time? Both movies are completely downloaded so it wasn't that.
                    As mentioned, your box will need a few days to fully update so you can access all the current content. We add content on a weekly basis, so if the box was sitting waiting for its new home (your home!) for a while it needs some time to catch up. After the initial update, you should not notice any significant use of your bandwidth by VUDU. The box is designed to adapt to your bandwidth use and not interfere with your normal usage.

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                      Re: VUDU on the internet all the time?

                      Originally posted by KristinC View Post
                      As mentioned, your box will need a few days to fully update so you can access all the current content. We add content on a weekly basis, so if the box was sitting waiting for its new home (your home!) for a while it needs some time to catch up. After the initial update, you should not notice any significant use of your bandwidth by VUDU. The box is designed to adapt to your bandwidth use and not interfere with your normal usage.

                      A question: I saw an earlier post in another thread where the conern was a 1 Mbps dowload speed from the VUDU wireless when the network speed was 20 Mbps.

                      I also have about a 20 Mbps download rate, but got the wireless attachment so I could use in other rooms of the house. Is this limit on wireless download a common issue? Am I better off hardwired? If 4 Mbps downlaods with wireless are to be expected, then it should not matter since the 4 Mbps downloads are the max for the VUDU system right now from what I have seen on other posts.

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                        Re: VUDU on the internet all the time?

                        Originally posted by aggiesnlc View Post
                        A question: I saw an earlier post in another thread where the conern was a 1 Mbps dowload speed from the VUDU wireless when the network speed was 20 Mbps.

                        I also have about a 20 Mbps download rate, but got the wireless attachment so I could use in other rooms of the house. Is this limit on wireless download a common issue? Am I better off hardwired? If 4 Mbps downlaods with wireless are to be expected, then it should not matter since the 4 Mbps downloads are the max for the VUDU system right now from what I have seen on other posts.
                        With sufficient signal strength between the wireless units, you should get the full "G" rate or 54 Mbps in both directions (27 Mbps in each direction). So you'll have more than enough bandwidth for downloading movies at 4 Mbps.

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                          Re: VUDU on the internet all the time?

                          Originally posted by aggiesnlc View Post
                          A question: I saw an earlier post in another thread where the conern was a 1 Mbps dowload speed from the VUDU wireless when the network speed was 20 Mbps.

                          I also have about a 20 Mbps download rate, but got the wireless attachment so I could use in other rooms of the house. Is this limit on wireless download a common issue? Am I better off hardwired? If 4 Mbps downlaods with wireless are to be expected, then it should not matter since the 4 Mbps downloads are the max for the VUDU system right now from what I have seen on other posts.
                          The Vudu has no way of detecting that you are using wireless vs. wired connection. If your wirless connection is not performing at the speed you expect the problem is with the wireless gear, not the Vudu. If you tell us what wireless gear you are using we can probably solve the problem (based on our wireless pro RonV chiming in to make me an honest man).

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                            Re: VUDU on the internet all the time?

                            Originally posted by NA9D View Post
                            Good. Mind telling me what you've got things set to? Seriously, I've tried to do this but it was a while ago. Maybe they changed some things in how the networking works.
                            What model router are you using? In ours (D-Link Xtreme Gaming Router DGL-4500) there are a couple ways to handle this.

                            Under the advanced tab in this firmware access by time and date as well as throttle prioroty of applications by IP and/or IP range. This is useful for giving the VUDU more priority on our network when resources are least used (midnight to 4am PST). Downloading stubs then is fine by me. Downloading stubs when we're having a gaming session, not so much.

                            Something less advanced offered in my router's firmware D-LINK calls WISH (Wireless Intelligent Stream Handling) which allows prioritizing applications by IP address range. No time and date handling function here though so I went the advanced route. There are dropdown functions to set the following priority levels:

                            best effort, video, voice

                            This way those who use VOIP for example could make sure other applications like VUDU never used too much bandwidth and degregate the call quality. Those who want to make sure their Media Center videos have maximum throughput could select "video" for example. Haven't analyzed the VUDU packet activity but it might be captured under the video in the router. If not, it can still be captured it by IP/IP range under advanced.

                            Your router firmware might or might not have a WISH-like functionality, but it probably has some type of advanced routing functionality if you dig into it. That is why my original suggestion was to check the support forums for the router and go from there.

                            The only other P2P used on our network is Skype and we shut that down when not using it. Within reason of course Vudu can suck down all it wants from midnight to 4am PST when our network has the most available resources but during the daytime, it needs to remain a lower priority on the network.

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                              Re: VUDU on the internet all the time?

                              Originally posted by Nded View Post
                              The Vudu has no way of detecting that you are using wireless vs. wired connection. If your wirless connection is not performing at the speed you expect the problem is with the wireless gear, not the Vudu. If you tell us what wireless gear you are using we can probably solve the problem (based on our wireless pro RonV chiming in to make me an honest man).

                              I have a Linksys Wireless-N Gigabyte Router Model: WRT310N. Distance from router to box will be no more than 50 feet, usally less than 15.

                              FYI - I have not had a problem yet, since my Vudu has not yet arrived, just trying to make sure I am prepared before setting it up for the first time.

                              thanks!

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