Trying Out Medical Live Streaming? Are You Having Connection Issues?
The year 2020 isn’t rally a good year for many reasons. With the current pandemic a lot of people are forced to change their lifestyle and move most of their work online. The same is true for medical professionals. If you are a medical professional, a live stream is a great way to educate your patients and the general public. Here are some real world examples. My favorite is the story “Mount Sinai Chamber Music Concert” that shows that not every live stream from your medical practice must be specifically about medicine.
All that is well and good, but medical live streaming is defensively no a simple thing. We will leave the medical part to the medical professionals and in this article we will help you solve connection issues you might run into with live streaming.
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Why Internet Problems Appear with Medical Live Streaming?
Okay, you don’t necessarily have to run into any issues, but it’s likely you will. And you don’t want to be caught off guard by those Internet issues. So, why do they happen?
How many times have you had to switch to a cellular connection in order to get things done lately?
Here’s what usually happens, from a more technical perspective:
- There’s not enough bandwidth available for your live stream so either the quality drops (jittery / choppy video) and/or you see disconnects
- The WiFi coverage is spotty – this leads to disconnects
- The WiFi hotspot is offline, but your device connects to it – your mobile device clings to it as it cannot tell it doesn’t work. So, instead of switching back to LTE to keep the stream going, it will disconnect it.
What can you do to improve your medical live streaming without any head aches? Read below.
How to Live Stream – Get a Stable Internet Connection
Speedify Helps You Livestream Without Internet Issues
At least that’s what our customers say. Here’s an example.
As a fast bonding VPN, Speedify acts like a power-up for your device. Instead of only using a single Internet connection at a time, Speedify allows your device to use multiple connections simultaneously. You’ll get more bandwidth and more stable livestreams.
Speedify constantly monitors the quality of your Internet connections. If the Wi-Fi becomes unreliable, it’ll automatically reroute data through cellular data until Wi-Fi is available again.
Moreover, it automatically identifies audio and video streams, and provides quality of service (QoS) by prioritizing streams over other traffic. Web browsing and software updates can’t mess up your calls and live streams.
Wondering how to do a medical live stream and not run into any connectivity issues? Try Speedify when medical live streaming! Get it here!
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