Simplex TV-video broadcasting (streaming)

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Dear Mikrotik team,

I have a proposal for a new feature which may look quite unusual:

Would it be possible to make special wireless mode similar to Nstreme2 but with TX only capability?
Idea is to broadcast multimedia-video stream wirelessly in the similar way like terestrial TV but with wifi-like HW.
Of course it will be necessary to make a oposite mode for RX only stations.
Since there will be no feedback from the stations, TX AP should broadcast whole stream (multiplex) at the fixed channel and fixed datarate without retransmisions etc.
Maybe it will be necessary to provide additional support for this type of broadcasting on the network layer, but the basic idea is broadcasting by wireless.

Thinking about this more deeply - maybe another way for this should be TX antenna for broadcast and another RX antena for receiving from the stations on the different channel - similar to Nstreme2 but in the PtMP way. Then the TX capacity can be divided between streaming and ordinary data for Internet access (with limited upload capacity).

Can You comment on this please?

–
jd

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I would love a way to do this.

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we are not planning to implement Nstreme2 for PTMP. Maybe some time in future we would look at it, becuase current;y there are not so many customers who would use such option.

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I don’t think Nstreme2 for P2MP was asked for here.
What’s asked for is one-way transmission, UDP multicast video packet stream, without ACK.

Any “listening” station (on correct freq/security/SSID etc) could receive the stream. No ACKs are sent to the base station.

Probably needs a major hack of the wireless drivers, but I bet it’s possible.

Regards

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you can already do this by using v3.0 and multicast package. Then you can forward Multicast traffic over the wireless and there will not be any ack for that traffic.

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large base antenna, small station antenna - no actual link. more like AM/FM stations - they just tune in but don’t have to transmit back. I guess it would be more like HDRadio now, digital streaming.

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Thanks Uldis. Sounds too simple to be true - but perhaps it is that simple!
If anyone tries this with success, please post - am sure all would like to hear

Regards